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This show eventually inspired KYW to launch a similar show hosted by Mike Douglas that eventually eclipsed "The One O' Clock Club" in popularity en route to becoming nationally syndicated. In the 1960s, Fuldheim teamed with Cleveland radio personality Bill Gordon to host "The One O'Clock Club" on WEWS, a mix of entertainment, news, and interviews. She also interviewed several American presidents. In the years that Highlights of the News aired, Fuldheim interviewed among others Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, the Duke of Windsor, and Barbara Walters. While the format of her show, Highlights of the News, consisted primarily of news analysis, it also included commentary, book reviews and interviews. Fuldheim was the first woman in the United States to have her own television news analysis program. Fuldheim centered her newscast around her interviews, a general overview of the news, and her commentaries (during which the very opinionated Fuldheim frequently inserted her own opinions about the stories).
In 1959, Fuldheim, who had been with the station before it even went on air, began to formulate her own newscast in response to the new Eyewitness News on KYW, which was the first half-hour newscast in the country. At the time of its launch, WEWS was one of two television stations in operation between New York and Chicago. Despite leaving WJW proper, she informally remained with the station after the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen purchased airtime over ABC for a weekly 15-minute commentary program. because television was supposed to be for the young and the beautiful and God knows what". Fuldheim later mused on joining WEWS, "I'm sure (Scripps) didn't intend to use me.
Scripps Howard hired Fuldheim away from WJW ostensibly for WEWS-FM (102.1) but promptly became a part of WEWS-TV upon their December 17, 1947, sign-on via a 13-week contract. In addition to her daily program, Fuldheim hosted Young America Thinks over WJW, a weekly public affairs open forum program aimed at high school students in collaboration with the Cleveland Board of Education. įuldheim additionally engaged in literary criticism and book reviews, with one review for the Kathleen Winsor novel Forever Amber drawing a capacity crowd of 600 females Fuldheim expressed shock at the number of people wanting to hear her discuss a "badly-written book" centering around sex appeal, while expressing chagrin over her other lectures not netting such large audiences. and the Soviet Union, saying "unless the United States finds a way to work with Russia harmoniously, we are doomed." During this period, Dorothy spoke about and advocated for the peace movement and peacekeeping both prior to and after the end of World War II, along with maintaining social welfare programs domestically. In a subsequent lecture, she warned about rising tensions between the U. WJW assigned her to attend the San Francisco Conference that established the United Nations and interview attendees, along with monitoring any developments. Fuldheim had hired by WJW based on her reputation as a public speaker, a career that continued unabated. WJW radio, also based in Cleveland, began airing daily news commentaries by Fuldheim starting in June 1944 as part of their Newspaper of the Air program. Interviews like these, which were conducted to help provide source material for her lectures, also informed her approach to broadcasting as the first female news analyst in network radio while with NBC Red. Fuldheim traveled internationally and visited prewar Europe on an annual basis, notably interviewing Engelbert Dollfuss two days before his assassination, and Adolf Hitler in 1932 shortly before his rise to power. Wells", quickly becoming a fixture on the circuit with 3,500 speeches given during a 20-year span. Her speeches which advocated hot-button issues like birth control and publicly-owned utilities and railroads earned her the nicknames of " militant Cleveland lecturer" and "the American H. įuldheim entered broadcasting with the debut of a weekly program over Cleveland radio station WTAM on December 12, 1929, and added a daily program over the NBC Red Network on August 28, 1933, that WTAM originated. For the next 19 years, Fuldheim frequently spoke about topics relating to foreign policy and social causes. Social activist Jane Addams recruited her in 1918 to speak about social causes, which started her career as a public speaker. Prior to working in broadcasting, she was an elementary school teacher. She spent her childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fuldheim, an American of Jewish descent, was born in Passaic, New Jersey.