Aug 03, 1945Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States78 years oldLeo
About Ron Hendren
Ron Hendren is a journalist and television personality.
He is best known as one of the original hosts of Entertainment Tonight, joining the syndicated television show at its debut in 1981. Hendren had a brief career in politics, working for politicians that included Sargent Shriver, Stephen M.
Young, and B.
Everett Jordan.
He transferred to a journalism career with a self-syndicated news column in 1972, which was subsequently picked up and distributed nationally as Ron Hendren In Washington by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
This led to a career as an on-air commentator and critic at the NBC owned and operated station WRC-TV in Washington D.C..
During his tenure at WRC, Hendren was a visiting lecturer in journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park. Hendren joined the Today Show in 1979, becoming the first on-air network television critic in the United States.
He joined Entertainment Tonight in 1981 while at the same time continuing a daily local commentary on KNBC News.
Hendren also hosted a nationally syndicated radio program, "TV Tonight with Ron Hendren." After leaving Entertainment Tonight in 1984, Hendren hosted nationally syndicated television programs including "All About Us" and "BreakThrough: Television's Journal of Science and Medicine."