Larry King

Larry King

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American author, radio and television host, whose awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and 10 Cable ACE Awards. During his career, King conducted over 60,000 interviews on radio and TV.King was born and raised in New York City to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Belarus in the 1920s. He studied at Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s and beginning in 1978, gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System.From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry King has received more than 12,419,728 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Larry King is the 5th most popular presenter (up from 8th in 2019), the 1,033rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,656th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Presenter.