This is my entry:
It's clean, it's simple, and you can easily play with the HTML on a daily basis. If you choose this one, we can obviously play with the colors to your full satisfaction, add/remove sponsor concepts (I know you said text links, just wanted to show you how it'd look like with some).
The HTML code might look a bit messy right now, but that's only because I worked on it pretty fast.
I also thought of making a version with small thumbnails of the people you interview. I might work on this version later, it can be a very nice feature.
Check it out here: (also see screen shot below)
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