deserves more credit than he typically gets for helping to build CNN and realize Ted Turner’s audacious vision for a 24-hour global news network.
In a sign of how much the media universe has changed, it’s unimaginable in the age of social media that major stars, ex-presidents, U.S. senators and myriad celebrities would go live for an hour on TV with an interviewer who proudly didn’t like to prepare. King’s show sought to be the Instagram of its time, a hub of news and dish on the story that everyone in the country was talking about on any given day.
“Larry King Live” mostly originated from CNN’s studios in Hollywood. That made King perfectly positioned to zero-in on the O.J. Simpson murder drama from day one, following the brutal stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in June 1994.
RT news less so.
Always loved his show RIP kingsthings 💜