Welcome to “Talk About Las Vegas.” This Las Vegas site will have a variety of features, but we’re starting off with the weekly show that features Ira David Sternberg talking with the celebrities, entertainers, writers and personalities who make Las Vegas the most exciting city in the world. The show first airs as “Nighttime With Ira” every Thursday at 9 p.m. on KUNV, 91.5/www.915thesource.org in Las Vegas, then is posted on this website.
Sternberg’s career includes decades of professional broadcasting as well as public relations, writing and communications. He was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998.
Some of the guests who have appeared on Ira’s show since 2005:
ACTORS: Lynda Carter, Jamie Farr, Rhonda Fleming, John O’Hurley, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Piscopo, Kevin Pollak, Adam West
ARTISTS: Jean Francois, Peter Max
AUTHORS: Edward J. Epstein, Charles Higham, Michael Hiltzik (Pulitzer Prize winner), Michael Starr
BOXING: Mike Tyson, Robert “Bob” Arum, Don King
CHEFS: Emeril Lagasse, Gustav Mauler, Myron Mixon, Louis Osteen, Megan Romano, Kerry Simon
COMEDIANS: Tim Allen, Louie Anderson, Dana Carvey, Bill Cosby, Bill Engvall, Vinnie Favorito, Whoopi Goldberg, D.L. Hughley, Jon Lovitz, Carlos Mencia, Kevin Nealon, Paula Poundstone, Don Rickles, Paul Rodriguez, Rita Rudner, Lily Tomlin, George Wallace
IMPRESSIONISTS: Terry Fator, Rich Little
MAGICIANS: Lance Burton, David Copperfield, Mac King, The Amazing Johnathan
MISCELLANEOUS: Blue Man Group, Bob Eubanks, Robin Leach, Larry King, “Batman” Executive Producer Michael Uslan, Dita Von Teese, jewelry designer Stephen Webster
MUSICIANS: Edwin Hawkins, Ramsey Lewis, Doc Severinsen
ROCKERS: Graeme Edge (The Moody Blues), Duncan Faure (Bay City Rollers), Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth), Al Jardine (Beach Boys), Little Anthony and Clarence Collins (Little Anthony and the Imperials), Rickey Medlocke (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe), Danny Seraphine (Chicago)
SINGERS: Paul Anka, Susan Anton, Tony Bennett, Theodore Bikel, Brooks & Dunn, Michael Bublé, Chubby Checker, Roy Clark, Jamie Cullum, Charlie Daniels, Michael Feinstein, Jose Feliciano, Mitzi Gaynor, Vince Gill, , Lee Greenwood, Clint Holmes, Gladys Knight, Gary Lewis (Gary Lewis and The Playboys), Melissa Manchester, Johnny Mathis, Reba McEntire, Phyllis McGuire, Willie Nelson, Tony Orlando, Ray Price, Jon Secada, Richard Sterban (The Oak Ridge Boys), B.J. Thomas, Andy Williams, Mary Wilson, “Weird Al” Yankovic