Female morning show hosts

You won't find him on very many lists—not even this one—but one of America's first long-running TV show hosts was John Charles Daly.

From 1950 until 1967, Daly was the host of a panel show called "What's My Line?" that had contestants fielding questions from celebrities of that period in order to guess what the contestants' line of work happened to be—thus the show's title.

Daly's was a familiar name to American households—as a CBS radio network correspondent in the 1930s and 1940s, he was the first national reporter to cover the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the first wire service correspondent to announce the sudden death of President Franklin D.

Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.

Daly's success on the game show circuit—which also included credits like "Celebrity Time" and "Who Said That?"—was in part due to a sense of trust he'd earned for his previous career as a news correspondent.

It is a particularly American sensibility that even the entertainers we bring into our homes on a weekly o

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