12-time Emmy Award winner
US television icon Barbara Walters († 93) is dead
Barbara Walters was the first woman to host the evening news in the United States. She passed away surrounded by her family at the age of 93.
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The American received a star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in 2007.
The US television legend Barbara Walters died at the age of 93, as announced by the television network ABC, her longtime employer, on Friday evening. The head of the US entertainment group Disney, Bob Iger, wrote on Twitter that Walters had died at her home in New York.
In 1976, Walters became the first woman in the United States to host an evening news program on television. She later ran the ABC daily talk show The View for many years. In 2014, at the age of 84, she retired as a presenter. In her long career, she has been awarded the prestigious US television Emmy award twelve times, according to ABC.
Known interview partners
Walters made her television debut in 1961 on NBC’s morning show “Today.” She had previously worked as a television writer. Although television journalism was a male domain at the time, Walters made a determined career. In 1974 she became the first woman to co-host “Today”. From 1976 she moderated the “ABC Evening News” and presented the news magazine “20/20” from 1979.
In 1997 she started her afternoon show “The View”, which dealt with current political and social issues. Her countless interview partners included all US Presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but also stars like Michael Jackson, Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford. (AFP / abt)