Charles Osgood Biography
Charles Osgood is a retired radio and television commentator and writer from the United States. Osgood is best known for hosting CBS News Sunday Morning for over 22 years, from April 10, 1994, to September 25, 2016. From 1971 to December 29, 2017, Osgood hosted The Osgood File, a series of daily radio commentaries.
How old is Charles Osgood? – Age
He is 90 years old as of 8 January 2023. He was born in 1933 in Bronx, New York, United States. His real name is Charles Osgood Wood III.
Charles Osgood Family – Education
As a child, he moved to the Liberty Heights neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, with his family. In Englewood, New Jersey, he attended St. Cecilia High School. Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack (2004) is his memoir about growing up in Baltimore during World War II, and it begins at the age of nine. Osgood earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Fordham University in 1954.
Charles Osgood Wife
He is married to Jeanne Crafton, and the couple has five children. In Englewood, New Jersey, he raised his family. When Osgood and his wife became empty-nesters, they moved to a 12-room duplex on West 57th Street at 7th Avenue in New York City.
Charles Osgood Salary
He earns an annual salary of $1 Million.
Charles Osgood Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Charles Osgood WHCT
RKO General, WGMS’ parent company, transferred Osgood to Hartford, Connecticut, in April 1962, and promoted him to his first job in television: general manager of Channel 18, WHCT (WUVN today). WHCT was the first television station in the United States to be licensed to use Phonevision, a Zenith-developed system that scrambled the station’s image and sound.
This restricted viewing to paid subscribers who were provided with decoders that were connected to their television sets and telephone lines. The station provided its subscribers with first-run movies, live sporting events, and cultural programming such as ballets and symphonies, all without commercials. Despite the fact that RKO is expected to operate. Although RKO expected to run WHCT at a loss for the three years before the Federal Communications Commission was set to renew the station’s license, by early 1963, the financial realities had become too difficult to bear. In an interview with Broadcasting magazine in 1985.
Charles Osgood Radio
Osgood worked for WCBS as a reporter and anchor. In August 1967, he hosted WCBS’s first-morning drive shift after the station switched to an all-news format. After an airplane crashed into the AM station’s antenna tower on New York’s High Island, keeping WCBS off the air until a temporary tower could be erected, the first day of all-news programming aired on WCBS-FM.
Osgood was the host of Westwood One’s The Osgood File, which could be heard four times per weekday morning drive time on radio stations across the country. Each three-minute Osgood File focused on a single story, ranging from a significant national development to a lighthearted human-interest vignette. He did some of them in rhyme, which is why he was dubbed CBS’s “Poet in Residence.” He continued to broadcast these messages until December 29, 2017.
What has happened to Charles Osgood?
Osgood announced his retirement from the radio show on December 21, 2017, due to health concerns, effectively ending his broadcast career. On December 29, 2017, he made his final broadcasts.