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- ↑ Lanier, Kim. "Television cook Estella Payton dies at age 95." Mobile Press-Register [Mobile, Alabama] December 16, 1999: B1.
- ↑ Lanier, Kim. "Cooking show hostess 'Connie Bea' Hope dies." Mobile Press-Register [Mobile, Alabama] January 27, 1993: B1
- ↑ "The Mobile version of Julia Child and Martha Stewart. Had a long run cooking show on channel Five (formerly one of only two channels in the City)." Culture "Cul-cha"; How to Speak Mobile Connie Bea and Estelle Mobile Bay Convention and Visitor's Bureau
- ↑ Herman W. Land Associates Inc. Television and the Wired City a Study of the Implications of a Change in the Mode of Transmission 1968, July (1111) ASIN: B000RL0X18
- ↑ WKRG-TV Celebrates 50 Years on the Air page 7, 8 The Business View May 2005 Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce
- ↑ Landon Legacy: Woman's World (Host: Monica Knight, 197_ – 1981) WKRG-TV (Mobile, AL) /Date/, 197_
- ↑ "As we look back at the first year in office for Mobile's first black mayor, the simple fact that a big deal has not been made about it shows just how far the city has come since 1956, when it was some-what extraordinary that an African-American woman would be co-host of a city-wide television program." C. Anderson Romagnano A Year with Mayor Sam Jones September 20, 2006 The SpringHillian (Mobile's first collegiate newspaper)