soiree in stripes emcee Art holliday

Art Holliday’s broadcasting career spans more than 35 years in news and sports, including 30 years at KSDK-TV St. Louis. Currently Holliday co-anchors with Jennifer Blome on “Today In St. Louis” and “Newschannel Five at Noon". From 2003 to 2005, Holliday also served as executive producer. Before joining KSDK in 1979, Holliday worked at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City as a sports reporter/photographer.

Holliday has been recognized with numerous awards. His sportscasting talents resulted in three St. Louis Emmy awards, two for Best Sportscaster in 1988 and 1985, and one for Best Sports Feature in 1989. In 2003, The University of Missouri-Columbia selected Holliday for its prestigious Faculty-Alumni Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists. Holliday has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Several years ago, the fourth floor dormitory residents of Excellence Hall at the University of Missouri voted to name their floor Holliday House.

Holliday’s interests include documentary filmmaking. Holliday’s first documentary “Before They Fall Off The Cliff: The Ripple Effect Of Schizphrenia is being used to train police officers as part of the curriculum for the Crisis Intervention Team training sessions. His current documentary-in-progress, “Johnnie Be Good”, is the life story of Johnnie Johnson, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For “Johnnie Be Good”, he has interviewed Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, Joe Perry of Aerosmtih, blues legend Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, and movie director Taylor Hackford.

JOHNNIE BE GOOD SHORT SYNOPSIS

On New Year’s Eve 1952, band leader Johnnie Johnson hired a little known guitar player named Chuck Berry and the two men eventually became the first great song-writing team in rock and roll. Johnnie Be Good is the story of the complicated relationship between two Rock and Roll Hall Famers: Chuck Berry, the brilliant lyricist and businessman, and piano man Johnnie Johnson, a master boogie woogie and blues keyboardist, complimented each other perfectly and collaborated on hits such as "Maybellene, Rock and Roll Music, No Particular Place to Go, and Roll Over Beethoven. Only Berry's name appeared on the writing credits and it will always be contested how many of Berry's songs should have been co-credited to Johnson. Not even a lawsuit settled the debate.