[1][2] She was the first female radio disc jockey for WGL (AM)[3] and was a regular contributor at WANE-TV, which is a CBS affiliate, since it went on air in 1958, and she became well known as the first local female TV host of her own afternoon program with residents, local news makers, and national celebrities as guests.
Ann was the youngest female of ten children, which included siblings Dominic, Ferdinand, Ralph, Josephine, Anthony, Frankie, Virginia, Martha, and Franklin.
[7] At the time, Corinthian Broadcasting appointed her as Women's Director of WANE-TV, as it did at other stations it owned, hiring such women as Joanne King (KHOU-TV, Houston), Faith Levitt (WISH-TV, Indianapolis),[8] Gay Miller (KOTV, Tulsa), and Myra Scott (KXTV, Sacramento).
[10] She interviewed numerous and various celebrities of the time such as Vincent Price, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Woody Allen, Robert F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Count Basie, and The Rolling Stones in the group's earliest days.
[12][13] For a while, she replaced the host Dave King in a popular afternoon movie program called "Dialing for Dollars".