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• Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT

  Meet Faye Emerson, who became network TV's first female late-night host in 1949 -- nearly 40 years before Joan Rivers

  Joan Rivers is widely considered the first female late-night host with Fox's The Late Show, premiering in 1986.