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PBSO is on The Air — With Host Who Had Brushes With The Law!

Posted by , August 16, 2012 Print

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office‘s very own radio show is premiering right now on Seaview radio with host Bob Nichols, a former television weatherman who had his own brushes with the law!

Bob Nichols

Bob Nichols

The show, dubbed PBSO Inside and Out, is broadcast on brokered air time that costs $400-an-hour.

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Gossip Extra first reported on PBSO’s plan to take to the airwaves in July.

A PBSO spokeswoman today said taxpayer’s money isn’t used to pay for the show.

“The radio show money is coming from private donors,” said Teri Barbera, the spokeswoman. She didn’t identify the donors.

The program is designed to counter The Beat, the Wednesday night law enforcement show co-hosted by former cops Rick Sessa and Dan Henry. (I am a frequent contributor to The Beat, which is known to be critical of Sheriff Ric Bradshaw‘s administration.)

PBSO Inside and Out‘s choice of host, meanwhile, has raised eyebrows. Nichols is a well-known area broadcaster whose temper has got him in trouble.

In 1986, for example, Nichols was a weatherman at WPEC-Channel 12 when he was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault. He was accused of threatening his ex-wife and her ex-husband with a knife at her home in Palm Beach Gardens!

The same year, TV old-timers tell me, he was reading the news on-the-air when a woman penetrated into his studio and flung an object at him.

In 2010, sheriff’s deputies responded to a fight at the Sherbrooke Golf & Country Club in Lake Worth that involved Nichols. He wasn’t arrested, but the club’s grounds keeper was!

Nichols started the show, which airs at 7 p.m. Thursdays, by calling PBSO one of the country’s greatest law-enforcement organizations.

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3 Comments

  1. Mad Max, 9 months ago Reply

    Typical Lambiet Gossip strategy: Make it personal by reporting trash about anyone who opposes his views, thoughts and commentary, as well as those who espouse his same political and social beliefs. Attack their credibility with gossip, innuendos, unsubstantiated and irrelevant information, twisted to confuse his reader into actually believing them as facts.

    Convenient of you to leave out the final disposition of the 1986 case and to sensationalize the 2010 case with the groundskeeper’s arrest. Wow! The police responded to his home due to a fight that involved Nichols. Nichols was a witness, correct. Your piece doesn’t clarify the facts. A little more information could make you more credible. But then again, this is a gossip column built around rumors, 3rd hand information and speculation.

    • Jose Lambiet, 9 months ago Reply

      I like Bob Nichols as a person. He is a great broadcaster with a good voice and good presentation. He should be employed somewhere in the local media but has been blackballed. This being said, this show represents the men and women of a law enforcement agency. We all have skeletons in our closets, but now that he is the host of a radio show put out by PBSO, there’ll be scrutiny.

  2. Mad Max, 9 months ago Reply

    Thanks for the timely and “politically correct” reply. I don’t doubt that you feel the way you do about Bob, but you’re support of and professional alliance with a site not as nearly as classy as yours, is a turn off to alot of people who follow Gossip Extra. The other fellow’s website is purely hatred, filled with borderline libel and slander and you know who I’m talking about.


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