Ron Hendren
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Hendren in 1995.
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Ralph C. Hendren August 3, 1945 Pinehurst, North Carolina |
| Education | Journalism, Political Science |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Journalist Television personality |
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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."
Hendren attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he majored in journalism and political science. While at UNC, he was a member of the Men's Residence Council and also wrote for The Daily Tar Heel, the school's independent student newspaper. He was named North Carolina's outstanding young leader of 1963 and graduated as a Whitaker Scholar. He moved to Washington D.C. after graduating in 1967.
He later went on to attend The George Washington University Law School, but left prior to graduating. Hendren joined the North Carolina National Guard where he served from 1968–69, moving on to the United States Army Reserve where he served until 1974.
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