Amanda

Amanda is an American music television program starring Amanda Randolph that debuted on the DuMont Television Network on November 1, 1948. The ending date for the show is unclear, but it still appears in a TV schedule from October 1949. Broadcast history Aired in New York City at 9:45 am ET on the DuMont Television Network's flagship station WABD (some sources say the show aired noon to 12;15 pm ET). The show was a 15-minute daytime music program starring Amanda Randolph, who hosted the program and sang. The program is significant as one of the first regularly scheduled television show to feature an African-American woman as host. On the program, Randolph sang songs ranging from spirituals to boogie woogie. According to the book The Forgotten Network (2004), DuMont began offering 4.5 hours of morning and afternoon programming to affiliates in January 1949, but it is not clear which program these included. The program and several other WABD daytime shows seem to appear in Pittsburgh television schedules (on station WDTV) during 1949, so the program may have been shown on a network level. According to the April 30, 1949, edition of newspaper Pittsburgh Courier, the program also featured guest appearances, the first of which was Etta Moten.