About Dennis Wholey
DENNIS WHOLEY is the veteran television talk show host and producer who has been interviewing political leaders, celebrities, newsmakers, authors, journalists, and experts for television, radio and books for more than 25 years. (continued below)
Wholey brings all of his broadcasting experience to PBS television stations and national cable networks across the United States and around the world with his unique, weekly, one-on-one interview and roundtable conversation show, THIS IS AMERICA WITH DENNIS WHOLEY.
Wholey began his interviewing career on THE AGE OF INVOLVEMENT on listener sponsored WBAI-FM in New York City. After a successful stint as a freelance host on the local New York PBS station, WNET-TV, he joined the staff there as a host/producer of various series and specials. After two years, he moved to commercial television hosting 12 NOON, a local morning show for WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. THE DENNIS WHOLEY SHOW, a daily, nationally syndicated talk/variety show for TAFT BROADCASTING and THE GENERATION GAP, an ABC-TV network night time game show, followed a year later.
Wholey hosted a variety of television specials and series for WABC-TV, WOR-TV, WCBS-TV, and radio shows for WHN in New York and the CBC in Canada. Wholey then located to WXYX-TV in Detroit where he hosted the number one morning show in the market, A.M. DETROIT WITH DENNIS WHOLEY, before moving to Washington, DC where he co-hosted MORNING BREAK for the POST NEWSWEEK station and filed pieces for ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA.
Wholey rejoined public broadcasting with FEEDBACK on WTVS in Detroit, and then earned national recognition for four years as a critically acclaimed television interviewer with the award winning, nightly, PBS telephone/talk series, LATENIGHT AMERICA.
During this time Wholey began a second career as an author. His first book, The Courage to Change: Personal Conversations about Alcoholism, appeared on the New York Times best seller list for six months. With the desire to continue writing, Dennis left television and produced two more books.
Wholey revived LATENIGHT AMERICA as a weekly, two-hour Saturday night series for PBS and moved the show to Washington and continued writing. He also established his own production company, DENNIS WHOLEY ENTERPRISES, INC., and has created and hosted three additional national television series for PBS stations: AMERICA: PERSONAL CONVERSATIONS WITH DENNIS WHOLEY, DENNIS WHOLEY'S AMERICA, and now THIS IS AMERICA WITH DENNIS WHOLEY.