[1] At the height of her career at CNN, she was often referred to in the press as the "best interviewer" on television at a time when there were few female hosts.
Freeman co-hosted AM Chicago for WLS-TV alongside (at various points) Steve Edwards, John Barbour and Robb Weller.
Ted Turner hired her for a daily evening program that reached large audiences as one of the pioneers of the then nascent CNN.
During that time, she interviewed many famous personalities, including Frank Zappa,[4] Shimon Peres, Hosni Mubarak, Yitzhak Shamir and others.
[6] Freeman won the On Cable magazine Outstanding Talk Show Personality Award three times from 1982 to 1984.