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Her family was Roman Catholic, and she attended Central Catholic School, where she graduated in 1947.
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Ann L. Colone
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She was the first female radio disc jockey for WGL (Department of Administration and Management) and was a regular contributor at WANE-television, which is a Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate, since is opened in 1958, and she became well known as the first local female television host of her own afternoon program with residents, local news makers, and national celebrities as guests. Ann was the youngest of eight children, which included siblings Dominic, Ferdinand, Ralph, Josephine, Anthony, Frankie, Virginia, and Martha. She resided in Fort and entered the broadcasting business.
Colone was 77 at the time of her death and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery of Fort
. Ann Colone began her career in broadcasting as a secretary for WGL (Department of Administration and Management) radio station and then later became a DJ on the station. Colone switched to television in 1958 when she joined WANE-television On her first Saturday morning television show, Colone demonstrated toys for children, which was sponsored by a local toy store.
At the time, Corinthian Broadcasting appointed her as Women"s Director of WANE-television, as it did at other stations it owned, hiring such women as Joanne King (KHOU-television, Houston), Faith Levitt (WISH-television, Indianapolis), Gay Miller (KOTV, Tulsa), and Myra Scott (KXTV, Sacramento). She was well known as the host of The Ann Colone Show, a daily, noon time, homemaker and talk show on WANE-television for about 18 years.
The show began as a half-hour show, but grew to an hour, then to an hour and a half.
She interviewed numerous and various celebrities of the time such as Vincent Price, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Woody Allen, Robert Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Count Basie, and The Rolling Stones in the group"s earliest days. The show was popular locally and her audience was typically three-fourths and more female. Foreign a while, she replaced the host Dave King in a popular afternoon movie program called "Dialing for Dollars".
After she ended her program, Colone continued to work for WANE-television behind the camera in promotions and advertising and stayed there until 1981.
After leaving WANE-television, she worked for Arata Medical Group and hosted "Ask The Physician" for radio about health and medical topics. She was also a well known actor in many local plays for years.
President of Advertising Association of Fort (1979) "Ann Colone Remembers," a television biography produced and aired on WFWA (Public Broadcasting Service affiliate).
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