Barb Oates

Barb has spent the last 30 years as a TV entertainment reporter and editor in chief of Channel Guide Magazine and OnDISH Magazine, in addition to serving as editorial director for ReMIND Magazine and TV Guide Magazine Puzzler. She’s an active member of the TV Critics Association, and was the 2010 award recipient of Women In Cable Telecommunications Inspiration Award (Greater Chicago Chapter). As a child of the ’70s, her go-to toys were Mrs. Beasley and the Sunshine Family. She enjoyed pretending with her grade school classmates that they were the girls’ version of the Bay City Rollers, but the British rockers stood little ground against her love affair with Andy Gibb and Donny & Marie. As for TV and movies, don’t even get her started on Little House in the Prairie and The Outsiders. And for other things pop culture, she’s still trying to figure out the Rubik’s Cube, and hoping the Captain’s Steak Joynt and that fabulous cheese fondue will see their return.