On TV

This week on Face to Face June 22 - June 26, 2009 Monday: Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak wants to know who's behind some cushy consulting contracts with quasi-county agencies. Plus, state lawmakers dipped into county coffers to help fill the budget hole. Will you pay with cuts to services? Face to Face talks with Sisolak and Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine. Tuesday: A new law aimed at stemming foreclosures allows judges and lawyers to mediate disagreements between struggling homeowners and their lenders. How will it work, and what is the court doing to accommodate the expected onslaught of cases? Face to Face asks Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (Clark-D), Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice James Hardesty and Nevada Bankers Association President and CEO Bill Uffelman in an encore broadcast. Wednesday: President Barack Obama is condemning the Iranian government's violent reaction to thousands of Iranian protesters, but some critics question whether he's going far enough. Face to Face gets reaction from the local Iranian community. Thursday: U.S. Sen. John Ensign (Nevada-R) faces an ethics complaint stemming from his affair with his staff member Cynthia Hampton. Did he break Senate rules by allegedly terminating Hampton and her husband because of the affair? Plus, Ensign's political struggles leave a leadership vacuum for Nevada's Republican Party. How will the party regroup? Face to Face asks some experts. Friday: TBA.

"Face to Face with Jon Ralston" is a news interview program of the Las Vegas Sun that appears on Las Vegas ONE (COX Cable channel 19), the all-news cable channel that is a joint operation of Cox Communications, KLAS-Channel 8 and the Sun.

The 30-minute program features in-depth interviews with community leaders, public officials and residents on the most important issues and people in the news in Las Vegas and Nevada. "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" airs daily at 5:30, 6:30, 8:00 and again at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. the next day. "The Best of Face to Face" airs Saturday and Sunday at varying hours. Consult your local TV schedule. If you can't catch one of the TV shows, don't fret! "Face to Face" is also broadcast on the web on the Las Vegas Sun's website.

Nevada Week in Review

Jon Ralston also appears as a regular panelist on the news discussion program "Nevada Week in Review," broadcast on KLVX Channel 10. Visit the KLVX website for a schedule of upcoming programs, or for more information about the show.

"Face to Face with Jon Ralston" Staff

DANA GENTRY | dgentry@klastv.com
Executive Producer, Face to Face
Phone: (702) 792-8888
Bio: Dana Gentry is a native Las Vegan. She is a 1977 graduate of Bishop Gorman High School, and holds a bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Gentry began her career in broadcasting as an intern at Channel 8, KLAS-TV. She later became a reporter at Channel 8, working with Las Vegas TV news legends Bob Stoldal and the late Ned Day. Gentry left her reporting job in 1985 to focus on motherhood. She returned to TV news at Fox affiliate KVVU-TV briefly in 2000, before launching "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" in March of 2001.

GUY DEMARCO | gdemarco@klastv.com
Producer, Face to Face
Phone: (702) 792-8894
Bio: Although Guy DeMarco is a native of Anaheim, California, he is very much a product of Arizona. Guy graduated from Lake Havasu High School in 1993. He enrolled at Northern Arizona University that same year and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcasting and electronic media in 1997. During his college career, Guy took a keen interest in politics, minoring in Political Science. He also traveled in college, taking part in a national student exchange to the University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. Guy landed his first television job in 2000, working as a weekend editor for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas. He eventually worked his way up the ranks and became the producer for News ONE at 9pm on Las Vegas ONE in March 2004. He joined the Face to Face staff in July 2005.