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Maury Povich

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Maurice Richard Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American former television personality, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show Maury which aired from 1991 to 2022. Povich began his career as a radio reporter, initially at WWDC and later as host of a daytime Washington DC talk show Panorama. In the late 1980s, he gained national fame as the host of tabloid infotainment TV show A Current Affair, based at Fox's New York flagship station WNYW. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maury Povich has received more than 4,911,947 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Maury Povich is the 80th most popular presenter (down from 70th in 2019), the 12,624th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,755th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Presenter.

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  • 4.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Maury Povich ranks 80 out of 143. Before him are Nikolay Baskov, Al Sharpton, Matt Lucas, Nadia Hasnaoui, Monty Hall, and Lucy Aharish. After him are Tony Wilson, Bruce Forsyth, Fred Allen, Masahiro Nakai, Vladimir Turchinsky, and Mélissa Theuriau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Maury Povich ranks 609. Before him are Jack Yerman, Dudley Storey, David Allan Coe, Julius Chan, BarBara Luna, and Cleavon Little. After him are Carole Shelley, Jim Baxter, Salvatore Nunnari, Renée Schuurman, Willye White, and Jagdeep.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maury Povich ranks 12,624 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Weir (1947), P. B. S. Pinchback (1837), Joey Baron (1955), John W. Davis (1873), Josie Maran (1978), and Neil Gorsuch (1967). After him are Mary Washburn (1907), Rex Ingram (1895), Criss Oliva (1963), David Curtiss Munson (1884), Sam Kinison (1953), and Adrian Smith (1936).

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Among PRESENTERS In United States

Among presenters born in United States, Maury Povich ranks 41. Before him are Al Franken (1951), Drew Carey (1958), Gretchen Carlson (1966), Dr. Demento (1941), Gene Siskel (1946), and Al Sharpton (1954). After him are Fred Allen (1894), Don Cornelius (1936), Dennis Miller (1953), Wendy Williams (1964), Sean Hannity (1961), and Marc Maron (1963).

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