Make this text less biased: the first was the morning show, hosted by sports anchor tom york; airing for 32 years from 1957 to 1989, it was a more general-interest interview and features program that was formatted basically a local version of today; wbrc anchor joe langston (who also hosted the children's programs birthday party and junior auction for the station in the late 1960s) and comedienne fannie flagg joined as york's co-hosts in the early 1960s (flagg would leave for los angeles in 1964 to become a writer for candid camera).
the first was the morning show, hosted by sports anchor tom york; airing for 32 years from 1957 to 1989, it was a more general-interest interview and features program that was formatted basically a local version of today; wbrc anchor joe langston (who also hosted the children's programs birthday party and junior auction for the station in the late 1960s) and comedian fannie flagg joined as york's co-hosts in the early 1960s (flagg would leave for los angeles in 1964 to become a writer for candid camera).