It's hard to pick which of Larry King's distinguished guests offered the most memorable interview — from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to Martha Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld.
If you're not too familiar with the late TV host, many of his famed sit-downs can be found on YouTube and other streamers. King is said to have interviewed more than 50,000 people on-air during his reign at CNN and beyond — and it can all be traced back to an entirely different medium.
"It started May 1, 1957, on a little radio station in Miami," King told CBS in 2007 amid his 50-year on-air celebration.
That means Friday, May 1 marks 69 years since the Larry King Live host made his first-ever radio broadcast, which paved the way to his decorated career.
The Emmy winner was born in New York but moved to Miami by the late 1950s to find work in radio broadcasting. He was reportedly doing maintenance work at a small station when an announcers quit, and King was put on the air as a disc jockey, according to his online biography.
Just before going on the air, the manager reportedly asked him to change his name to something less ethnic — so the legend chose King after apparently seeing an ad in The Miami Herald for a liquor store. The rest is history.
On January 23, 2021, it was announced on King’s Twitter that he had passed away at the age of 87.
“With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host, and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,” read the post. “For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry’s many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster. Additionally, while it was his name appearing in the shows’ titles, Larry always viewed his interview subjects as the true stars of his programs, and himself as merely an unbiased conduit between the guest and audience.”
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