Dot Moore (1914-2007) was a Mobile, Alabama TV personality and “ambassador” to the stars for 46 years, whose long broadcasting career spanned four talk shows incarnations, numerous trips to the east and west coasts of the United States, and dozens of conversations with television and motions pictures’ most renowned people.

Born in Pensacola, Florida before her family moved to Mobile at the age of 12, Dorothy “Dot” Fillette had her young mind and eyes set on becoming an actress, an early indication of what was soon to come many years later. Moore would finish her schooling Murphy High School before her first job as a secretary close to her father, who was in the steam ship business. Several years later Dot opened “Dot’s Dress Shoppe” and one day she met the two ladies who would introduce her to the radio and television business, a radio personality going on vacation and a TV chef who invited Dot over to her local TV cooking show.

In 1958 Dot Moore went to work as a receptionist at WABB. This seemingly small position would lead to speaking before a wide radio audience with her low tone voice, earning the liking of one WABB announcer. Radio and TV commercials, including a televised March of Dimes PSA featuring Dot as a donor would earn her a shot at the daily half-hour program “Channel 10 Kitchen” on WALA-TV. The previous chef had to leave for health reasons and there was only one problem Channel 10 managed to deal with, Dot was not a cook. WALA’s solution was to find a professional chef and let Dot assist before the viewers. She also got the last remark in the program’s live commercials sponsored by General Electric.

After the cooking show contract was finished, Dot returned to radio as a commercial copy writer in the WALA radio traffic department. There were also times when the TV side of the building called upon Dot for their commercials or public service spots. Due to a dispute with a new station manager, Dot left the station which gave her time to free-lance in media during the early 1960s. In this busy period of trying to stay in Gulf Coast media and keeping things well at home, Dot was actually contacted by a WALA-TV announcer who wanted her to co-host the station’s new “Poolside” from the Admiral Semmes Hotel in downtown Mobile. Dot accepted the job and continued to expand her horizons, both creatively and physically.

After a successful run of “Poolside”, Dot returned to free-lancing; including some work for Gayfer’s department store and their commercials for Pensacola station WEAR-TV. Just when Dot was getting ready to step out of the public eye after a week of commercials and public appearances in Pensacola, a friend employed at WALA TV stopped by the Gayfer’s store to deliver her some good news. A new afternoon talk show of her very own was set to premiere on the following Monday, with all the guests booked for that week.

On May 14, 1963, “Dot Moore & Company” went the air between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. Viewers from south Mississippi to the Florida panhandle also got to see Dot help WALA-TV cover Mobile’s Mardi Gras Day celebration for 33 years. Ten years after “Dot Moore & Company” went on the air, Dot was given an on-air partner, Danny Treanor, and the show became known as “Gulf Coast Today” in 1973. The 9:00 a.m. program following NBC’s “Today” continued with this format for the next four years until Dot regained the sole host and producer of the show. In September 1979, “Gulf Coast Today” began airing once a week before it once again bore Dot’s name. “The Dot Moore Show” would remain on WALA’s schedule well into the 21st century.

During the 1990s, Moore’s Sunday community service program and fourth incarnation had a greater focus on public affairs figures than interviews with the stars. “The Dot Moore Show” went on the air for the last time on July 11, 2004, less than a week after her encounter with an automobile accident. Before leaving Mobile, Dot thanked loyal viewers, colleagues in television, friends, and her fellow colleagues at Channel 10 for the comfort and space they gave her for almost 50 years.

Dot retired following the accident to live with her family in Montgomery. Dot’s first husband was a Baltimore native Robert Joseph Miller they were married 15 years and he died from TB, leaving Dot with a 2-year-old year son. Dot would then meet her second husband Lon Stephens Moore of Missouri who also pass away due to illness. Dot’s is survived by her son Bob Miller Jr. and wife, Mary Miller; grandson, Robert Miller III. and wife, Jennifer Miller; great-grandson Carter Bruce Miller. Dot was a member of the Christian Science Church in Mobile.