VERB Network

05/14/2024

New episode of my "Surf Scene with PT" covering the "Duke's Dream Came True: Surfing's Road to the Olympics" exhibit opening at the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum is up on the HB YouTube channel, here's the show link:
https://youtu.be/niZq4DrAwVY

02/25/2024

Had a great lunch at Duke's Malibu yesterday with Candy Bass talking old times of the Wave Watch days with her late husband John who created the show and produced it for 104 episodes in the '80s into the '90's, you can still view a selection of those shows that have been digitized on Fuel TV.

04/13/2022

Opening in California theaters this weekend "Waterman", the life story of Duke Kahanamoku, from Olympic Gold medals, too exposing surfing around the world, his acting in Hollywood years, to the "Ambassador of Aloha" for Hawaii, to being one of America's greatest sportsmen of the early 1990's.
See a portion of the museum's current exhibit "Finding California Surf" come to life on the big screen with the 1925 Corona Del Mar rescues.
A must see, all over California theaters this weekend!

12/12/2021

New episode of "Surf Scene with PT" is done out there on multiple platforms!

11/25/2021

A great shoot yesterday for Surf Scene episode #4 on the HB Pier with Courtney Conlogue, talking story on yesterday her years on the USA National Team, today all her endeavors with Sea Tiger, Joylon and a whole lot more and tomorrow a quest for a WSL World Title(she's been 2nd twice) and Olympic qualification for 2024!
Look for it to air in December!

04/07/2021

The new Episode of "Surf Scene with PT", the Herbie Fletcher show is up and airing, if you haven't caught it here's the link:
https://youtu.be/RQNzO9fdvNQ

03/10/2021

Great Sean Doherty's review of "Girls Can't Surf" in theaters in Australia this week!
https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/wake-fellas-1991/113406

“Girls Can’t Surf”, may be the year’s best surf documentary.

02/05/2021

The second Episode of the new SURF SCENE with Peter "PT" Townend is complete and airing on HBTV-3 in Huntington Beach and can be seen on ROKU & Apple TV, if you don't have access to any of those platforms here's a a YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/ee_pkJ8iFyI

TK

12/03/2020

Us Verb TV guys Dan Foote and PT helped out on some historical footage from the Wave Watch tapes for this new documentary "Girls Can't Surf" coming out of Australia, looks like a great one!
https://youtu.be/rBjcbZla2cA

The untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever. ...

11/28/2020

Surf Scene with PT launches this morning on HBTV-3!https://www.facebook.com/105950014641089/photos/a.114343893801701/130810618821695/

11/22/2020

Surf Scene originally created on VERB Network is back on HBTV-3 in Huntington Beach, the first episode to air soon!
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=128476185721805&id=105950014641089

11/01/2020

The first episode featuring Surfing Walk of Famer is in the editing room and coming together, stay tuned for air dates in Huntington Beach soon!

The first episode featuring Surfing Walk of Famer Corky Carroll is in the editing room and coming together, stay tuned for air dates in Huntington Beach soon!

04/16/2020

We've been digging in the Ptcollection and have found a couple of boxes of Bud Surf Tour VHS tapes from the Prime Ticket Sports TV days, who wants to see a "Best of the Bud Surf Tour" re-runs?

04/01/2020

We've, Daniel J Foote and I Peter Townend have been gradually digitizing the Wave Watch library, over 100 shows from the Eighties, a couple towards the end in the Nineties, some epic interviews through the years, soon to be available to you!

Remember Wave Watch? We've been having a look through the vault and we've discovered some real gems. Thanks to our mate PT and the talented Dan "The Man" Foo...

10/11/2018

Recently uncovered, original Wave Watch 3/4inch tapes in producer John Bass's basement which Verb's Dan Foote is digitizing, check the show line-up's on this tape with shows #2 & #3, can't wait to see them!

07/03/2018

PT and legendary broadcaster Carlos Amezcua, SHACC Ohana Gala, June 22, 2018

03/09/2018

If you're in Australia, don't miss Surfing Australia TV on Channel 9 this Sunday!!!!

02/19/2018

VERB TV's "Surf Scene" has shot some interviews the last years that are absolutely precious, like host Peter "PT" Townend hanging with the late Rabbit Kekai talking about surfing with Duke when he was a teenager and Duke's style of surfing and checking photos of early days of adventuring out to Makaha when boards will still made of wood, look forward to seeing this soon!