Connie Chung Biography
Connie Chung is an American journalist who has worked as a news anchor and reporter for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview topics are Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first following the disappearance of Chandra Levy, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he revealed he was HIV-positive.
How old is Connie Chung? – Age
She is 77 years old as of 20 August 2023. She was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., United States. Her real name is Constance Yu-Hwa Chung.
Connie Chung Family – Education
Chung, the youngest of ten children, was born and raised in Washington, D.C., little than a year after her family relocated from China. Her father, William Ling Chung, was a Chinese Nationalist Government intelligence official, and five of her siblings died during the war. Constance Moore, a singer and actress, inspired her name. She earned a journalism degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969.
Connie Chung Husband
Since 1984, Chung has been married to talk show presenter Maury Povich. They adopted their son, Matthew Jay Povich, on June 20, 1995.
Connie Chung Net worth
She has an estimated net worth of $80 million.
Connie Chung MSNBC
Chung and Maury Povich began anchoring Weekends with Maury and Connie on MSNBC in January 2006. It was Chung’s first televised appearance since 2003. Chung, clad in a white evening gown and dancing on top of a black piano, sang a parody to the tune of “Thanks for the Memory” in the show’s final episode, which aired on June 17, 2006. On the internet, video footage of the off-key goodbye performance spread. “All I want to be sure of is that viewers understood it was a giant self-parody,” Chung said. Anyone who takes it seriously has to acquire a life.”
Connie Chung House
In Northwest DC, the couple purchased a seven-bedroom, eleven-bath Tudor-style home facing Rock Creek Park.Chung saw a house with longtime friend and real-estate agent Nancy Taylor-Bubes in late October, when she was in town for her high-school reunion at Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring. The 80-year-old house, which had not yet been formally listed, was set to go on the market for slightly under $9 million. It contains a pool and a koi pond on a third of an acre. While the ultimate purchase price has not been disclosed, insiders believe it was at least $8 million.
Connie Chung Interview
Chung returned to CBS in 1989 to host Saturday Night with Connie Chung (later titled Face to Face with Connie Chung) and anchor CBS Sunday Evening News (1989-1993). She became the second woman (after Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976) to co-anchor a major network’s national weekday news broadcast on June 1, 1993. Mrs. Gingrich claimed on Chung’s Eye to Eye with Kathleen Gingrich (mother of Republican politician Newt Gingrich) on January 5, 1995, that she couldn’t discuss what her son thought of First Lady Hillary Clinton on the radio.
Connie Chung Career
Chung worked as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite during the Watergate political scandal in the early 1970s. Chung left to co-anchor nightly newscasts with Joe Benti for KNXT, a CBS-owned and operated station in Los Angeles (now KCBS-TV). Chung “helped give Channel 2 an agreeable, respectable, middle-of-the-road identity,” according to a Los Angeles Times TV columnist. During her stint at KNXT, Chung also hosted CBS’s primetime news updates (CBS Newsbreak) for West Coast stations from the KNXT studios at Columbia Square.
Chung was asked about sexual harassment in her work in early 2018. “Oh, yeah!” she said. Sure, sure. Yeah. Every single day. A lot, I mean. Especially when I first began out.” Later that year, in response to Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about being sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, Chung penned an open letter to Blasey-Ford, claiming that the doctor who delivered her had sexually attacked her as well.
Chung returned to network news in 1983 as the host of NBC’s new early show, NBC News at Sunrise, which was scheduled as the lead-in to Today. She also hosted NBC Nightly News on Saturdays and stood in for Tom Brokaw on weeknights. American Almanac and 1986, which she co-hosted with Roger Mudd, were both created by NBC.
Chung presented a CBS side project, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, while hosting the CBS Evening News. Chung departed CBS after her co-anchoring duties with Dan Rather ended in 1995. She soon moved to ABC News, where she co-hosted 20/20 on Mondays with Charles Gibson and began doing independent interviews.
