''Woman's World'' was a lifestyle program that ran for more than two decades on

WKRG-TV WKRG-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama, United States, serving southwest Alabama and northwest Florida as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Gulf Shores, Alabama–licensed CW owne ...

channel 5 in

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. It was hosted by

Connie Bea Hope ''Woman's World'' was a lifestyle program that ran for more than two decades on WKRG-TV channel 5 in Mobile, Alabama. It was hosted by Connie Bea Hope and Estella Payton. It aired at noontime and lasted for 30 minutes. The show included guest ...

and

Estella Payton Estella Payton sometimes Estelle Payton (August 17, 1904 – December 16, 1999) was a co-star on the ''Woman's World'' cooking show that aired on WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama for decades. Payton, an African American woman, appeared with Connie Bea ...

. It aired at noontime and lasted for 30 minutes. The show included guest appearances and interviews.

Show history

Hope joined WKRG from its inception in September 1955 and began hosting Connie's Cupboard with Bea Hope, with Estelle Payton (1904–1999) as her assistant. In the early years, Payton, an African American, did not appear on camera unless her hands slipped into the shot while setting up or removing utensils. Later, in the 1960s, Payton began to appear on air. She was eventually given third billing on the program's opening titles, given her own microphone, and occasionally offered comments on Hope's demonstrations. The show aired at the same time and in direct competition with ''Gulf Coast Today'', a local women's show on

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hosted by Dot Moore. ''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. Notable guests on the program included well-known celebrities, such as

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. Landon Legacy: ''Woman's World (Host: Monica Knight, 197_ – 1981) WKRG-TV (Mobile, AL) /Date/, 197_''
/ref> A columnist suggested in 2006 that the show was an example of Mobile's progressivity in race relations."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 Romagnan
A Year with Mayor Sam Jones
September 20, 2006 ''The SpringHillian'' (Mobile's first collegiate newspaper)

References

Additional sources

*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

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