This Fall on OWN will be very exciting. Rosie O’Donnell is returning with a new talk show, “The Rosie Show,” on October 10, and The Oprah Winfrey Show library will also be available in an all-new way. Fans of Oprah will not want to miss out!
The Gayle King Show‚ tapes live in New York City weekdays at 10am ET/PT.
John Legend, one of Gayle’s favorite artists, spoke about his commitment to education on a July 20, 2011 visit.
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It was in front of an audience last June that King decided to strip down to her one-piece Spanx and fishnet stockings to greet guest Lady Gaga. The prank didn’t air on TV, but the studio audience saw King’s playful side, and videos of Gaga’s deadpan reaction were all over the Internet. It’s this accessibility and sass that has King’s fans devouring her every word in her popular magazine, O: The Oprah Mag- azine (usually simply called O), where she’s been Editor-at-Large since its incep- tion. It seems you’ll find King everywhere these days, spreading the word on the news as only she can. Because getting the word out is what Gayle King does best. She’s spent much of her life learning to decipher the news, even before she knew she wanted to. Early on, her father instilled in her the importance of knowing what was going on in the world. He insisted his family watch the TV news together regularly. Gayle says, “We had to sit and watch Walter Cronkite—I had no appreciation for it at the time, but now I see why he wanted us to be so well informed.” But as a student at the University of Mary- land, it wasn’t journalism King was drawn to—she majored in psychology, hoping to become a child psychologist or maybe go into law. She could never have predicted where her career would take her. While in college in 1975, King took an
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entry-level production assistant job at a television station just to make ends meet. Before long she was totally hooked. By her junior year, she says she knew the news- room was where she wanted to be: “I liked the immediacy of being live. I liked being the first one to hear news and be able to inform others. I love that no two days are ever the same; something is always chang- ing.”
In 1981, Gayle King began as a news
anchor for WFSB in Hartford, Connecti- cut. With the station for 18 years, King later co-hosted a daytime talk show, Cover to Cover, with Robin Wagner. In 1999, while preparing to renew her WFSB con- tract, King’s longtime friend Oprah Win- frey asked for her help to find someone who could help launch Winfrey’s new magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine. King remembers, “Oprah called, asking me to suggest somebody to help her with the magazine, somebody who really knew her and understood her sensibility.” As they worked to compile a list of people who would be suitable to help shape the vision of O, King says she realized, “I don’t have any experience in magazines, but I know a good story when I hear one!” Winfrey agreed, and that’s where King’s career at O began.
King’s well-received enthusiasm and unique perspective at O led to a proposal
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