less frequently, from their weekend home — first in Hay Island, Connecticut, and later in Kent, Connecticut. At its peak, their program had an audience of 2 million people. John A. Gambling, a colleague of the couple at WOR, described listening to the Fitzgeralds' program as being "like you were eavesdropping on a conversation with a loving but not always an agreeing couple." Both of the Fitzgeralds had their own radio programs on WOR when Pegeen had the idea that it might be interesting to broadcast a family's talk at the breakfast table. WOR officials initially believed a show like this would fail. The program was originally broadcast from the WOR studios, but Pegeen's illness brought about the temporary need to broadcast the show from the Fitzgerald's apartment. After the couple became the owners of their program, they elected to continue broadcasting from their home. She began working on the air for WOR November 21, 1939. Her program, Things That Interest Me focused on "fashion chatter and human interest." In 1942, Fitzgerald hosted Pegeen Prefers on WOR. The morning program was described in an ad for WOR as "a show deliberately planned to help women adapt their homes and habits to changing economic conditions" related to World War II. The show included "weekly reviews of exceptional retail ads in metropolitan newspapers." It began as a quarter-hour program broadcast three days a week. By November 1942, it had expanded to 25 minutes six times weekly. Later that year, on October 12, she began an afternoon program, Strictly Personal. She and her husband, Ed, co-hosted Breakfast with the Fitzgeralds and The Fitzgeralds in New York, the latter of which was on ABC. In New York City, their joint programs were heard initially on WOR, but on April 30, 1945, they moved to WJZ, when those call letters were used by the station later known as WABC. Two years later, WJZ added an evening version of their program, which was 15 minutes long and ran Monday-Friday. In 1955, Fitzgerald moved into the executive area of broadcasting, becoming manager of retail merchandising for WRCA and WRCA-TV in New York City. By the late 1950s, the Fitzgeralds were back at WOR with their radio program. The show survived various format changes until September 1983, when Fitzgerald received a telephone call from the station's program director. At a face-to-face meeting with both the program director and