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For Immediate Release
VETERAN SOUTH FLORIDA TV NEWSMAN GRABS THE GAVEL!
Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.—He’s spent 31 years as a TV news and weather man, and
three years as a local and national commercial spokesman. Now he’s climbing the
auction podium as a “Professional Auctioneer”! The State of Florida’s Department
of Business and Professional Regulation has awarded Bob Nichols his Auctioneers
license, #AU3251. Rod Tinson and Tinson Gallery and Restoration on Northwood
Avenue in West Palm Beach, will host Nichols’ debut Estate Auction Wednesday
June 16th at 5pm.
Nichols graduated from the Florida Auctioneer’s Academy in April and passed the
state required examination in early May. The auctioneer’s fast chant bid-call is
nothing new for Bob, he learned it years ago as speech therapy after a stroke
felled him at age 29. After recovery from stroke, he’s used the fast talk chant
to help charities in Florida and around the country raise over $13 million, at
hundreds of fundraising auctions.
Now as a licensed professional auctioneer, Nichols is hoping to help businesses
as well as charities with his knowledge of auction marketing , and auction
sales.
Nichols was the second of three generations of his family in the broadcasting
business. His father Chuck was news director and anchorman at WEAT TV Channel 12
(now WPEC) in the 60’s. Bob started at TV 12 in 1969 as a reporter and
weatherman. Bob’s daughter Natalie, completed the three generation hat-trick
when she became a traffic reporter on radio and TV in 1999.
Named newsman of the year three times by the American Women in Radio and
Television, Nichols was nominated for three TV Emmy awards and received hundreds
of awards and citations for his journalistic work over three decades of on-air
work at local stations in South Florida.
Bob left full time television in 2000, and served as spokesman for Florida
Atlantic University. Nichols is a commercial spokesman for many local businesses
including his re-occurring roles in Gardens Pest Control commercials and
spokesman on the Golf Channel and ESPN for Northwestern Golf Company.
While the world watched Palm Beach County during the 2000 Presidential Election
recounts, Bob was the guy giving the world-wide media its information, as the
Media Spokesperson for Theresa LePore, PBC Supervisor of Elections. Remember
“pregnant chads”, Bob Nichols coined the phrase.
Nichols is a member of the Board of Directors for the South Florida Fair, the
PBC Film and Television Commission, and National Spokesman for the American
Stroke Association.
Nichols will be available for estate, antique, collectible items, bankruptcy,
and even cattle auctions. However, Nichols says he plans to continue raising
money for the important work of local and national charities, specializing in
benefit auctions to help charities meet their budget needs.
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