Teddy Bart
Veteran radio and television broadcaster Teddy Bart became what he envisioned for his life as a child. His reality manifested through the music business. After several years on the road, Teddy brought his piano bar act to Nashville's Printer's Alley in the early '60s. Performing by night, writing songs by day, his songs were recorded by such legendary artists as Brenda Lee, Johnny Mathis and Al Hirt.
Still the broadcasting urge remained an unsettled calling. An introduction to the WSM radio program director led to a decade of various apprenticeship duties with the station. Eventually, Bart persuaded WSM radio officials to launch its first call-in talk show.
From there he assumed the hosting role of WSM television's award winning Noon Show and WSM radio's Waking Crew. Eleven years later, he turned totelevision news as the prime time anchor for Nashville's ABC affiliate.
After several years he returned to his first love: talk radio...as he introduced Teddy Bart's Round Table to Middle Tennessee.
With a lifetime fascination for the spiritual and paranormal, Bart launched his most innovative and daring program to date in 1987, with a program like none other: Beyond Reason.
After a fling with radio station ownership, he and his on air co-host and business partner , Karlen Evins, folded Teddy Bart's Round Table into a not-for-profit structure called The Public Forum.
In addition to his talk show skills, Bart is a writer as well, having written a weekly newspaper column, a nonfiction book entitled, Inside Music City U.S.A., and two works of fiction--The Mensh, and his latest, The Hooligan.
Bart was voted Nashville's Best Talk Show Host five years running and in 2003, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the Nashville Broadcaster's Association. When not on the air, Teddy is reading or walking and planning his next show.
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Karlen Evins
With a communications degree from the University of Tennessee, Karlen Evins had mapped out a career in advertising, not anticipating that the universe might have another plan.
While driving into Nashville, flipping through her daily fare of country radio stations, she happened upon a brand new talk show that stopped her in her tracks. So intrigued was she that she drove to the site of the broadcast, sat in the audience, raised her hand to asked the guest a question, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Until that moment she had no media interest, and certainly no broadcast training to back up her next move, but she asked for a job anyway and within weeks was hired as an intern to work on the new show, Beyond Reason. In a matter of months she moved up the ranks to producer, and then one day, when a guest lost his way, Bart said "mic up kid, we've got an hour to fill!"
Karlen was a natural, and shortly thereafter assumed the role of co-host, and later became Bart's business partner as well. She and Teddy now enter their second decade together as co-hosts and partners in their own company, Bart-Evins Productions.
In addition to her passion for the spiritual, Karlen co-moderated the politically oriented Teddy Bart's Round Table for eighteen years. She also co-created and hosted Country Music Soulmates on TNN.
Her business interests have included a TV production company, a book publishing company and a Nashville radio station. Through her work with the not-for-profit she founded called The Public Forum, she lobbied extensively for a statewide network to cover Tennessee's Capitol Hill.
In addition to her on air work, Karlen wrote the recently acquired, I Didn't Know That series of books, and just recently received her Masters in Divinity from Vanderbilt University.
Alongside her career interests, Karlen devotes her time to Nashville's homeless and volunteers as a reading mentor in Nashville public schools. She lives with her two pups, Ike and Minsky, and enjoys writing, meditation and yoga.
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