His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, working as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. When one of the station's announcers abruptly quit, King was put on the air. The manager of a small station, WAHR (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks. King went to Miami, and after initial setbacks, he gained his first job in radio. King's mugshot from his 1971 arrest in Miami the charges were ultimately dropped.Ī CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, suggested he go to Florida which was a growing media market with openings for inexperienced broadcasters. From an early age, he desired to work in radio broadcasting. Īfter graduating from high school, King worked to help support his mother. King was greatly affected by his father's death, and subsequently lost interest in his schoolwork. This resulted in King, his mother, and brother going on government welfare. When King was nine years old, his father died of a heart attack. King attended Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn. His parents were Orthodox Jews who immigrated to the United States from Belarus in the 1930s. He was one of two children of Jennie ( née Gitlitz), a garment worker who was born in Minsk, Russian Empire, and Aaron Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense-plant worker who was born in Pinsk, Russian Empire. King was born in Brooklyn on November 19, 1933. He remained active until his death in 2021, from complications of COVID-19 and sepsis, at the age of 87.
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King also appeared in television series and films, usually playing himself. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. įrom 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
He studied at Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn. King was born and raised in New York City to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Belarus in the 1930s. Over his career, he hosted over 50,000 interviews. Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger Novem– January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host, whose awards included 2 Peabodys, an Emmy and 10 Cable ACE Awards.
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