Woman's World (TV series)

Women's World
Format Talk show
Created by Kenneth R. Giddens
Starring Connie Bea Hope
Estella Payton
Monica Knight
Jackie Richards
Country of origin  United States
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel WKRG-TV
Original run 1955 – 1981

Woman's World was a cooking show that ran for more than two decades on WKRG channel 5 in Mobile, Alabama. It was hosted by Connie Bea Hope and Estella Payton.[1][2][3][4] It aired at noontime and lasted for 30 minutes. The show included guest appearances and interviews.

Show history

Guests included Michael Landon [5] and Virginia Greer and the show aired at the same time and in direct competition with Gulf Coast Today, a local women's show hosted by Dot Moore.[6] Woman's World was included in the Mobile Chamber of Commerce article celebrating WKRG's 50th anniversary, where it was listed as one of the TV station's favorite shows from the channel's early days of broadcast.[7]

A columnist suggested in 2006 that the show was an example of Mobile's progressivity in race relations.[8]

References

  1. ^ Lanier, Kim. "Television cook Estella Payton dies at age 95." Mobile Press-Register [Mobile, Alabama] 16 December 1999: B1.
  2. ^ Lanier, Kim. "Cooking show hostess 'Connie Bea' Hope dies." Mobile Press-Register [Mobile, Alabama] 27 January 1993: B1
  3. ^ "The Mobile version of Julia Child and Martha Stewart. Had a long run cooking show on channel Five (formerly one of only two channels in the City)." Culture "Cul-cha"; How to Speak Mobile Connie Bea and Estelle Mobile Bay Convention and Visitor's Bureau
  4. ^ Herman W. Land Associates Inc. Television and the Wired City a Study of the Implications of a Change in the Mode of Transmission 1968, July (1111) ASIN: B000RL0X18
  5. ^ Woman's World (Host: Monica Knight, 197[_] - 1981) WKRG-TV (Mobile, AL) [Date], 197_ http://landonlegacy.com/ML_Credits.htm
  6. ^ Retro: Gulf Coast Monday, Jan 28, 1974 [message #71491] Mon, 02 March 2009 20:16 by Mike Stroud
  7. ^ WKRG-TV Celebrates 50 Years on the Air page 7, 8 The Business View May 2005 Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce
  8. ^ "As we look back at the first year in office for Mobile's first black mayor, the simple fact that a big deal has not been made about it shows just how far the city has come since 1956, when it was some-what extraordinary that an African-American woman would be co-host of a city-wide television program." C. Anderson Romagnano (columnist and Connie Bea Hope's great-grandson) A Year with Mayor Sam Jones September 20, 2006 The SpringHillian (Mobile's first collegiate newspaper)

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