page_title: Larry King
section_title: National radio
hierarchical_section_title: Larry King / Career / National radio
caption_attribution_description: English: NEW YORK. Vladimir Putin interviewed by Larry King, an anchorman with the US CNN TV Channel.Русский: НЬЮ-ЙОРК. Интервью ведущему американского телеканала Си-эн-эн Ларри Кингу.
context_page_description: Larry King is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards.
  King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
  From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN.
  From 2012 until 2020, he hosted Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America. He continues to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which has aired weekly on the same two channels since 2013.
context_section_description: On January 30, 1978, King went national on a nightly Mutual Broadcasting System coast-to-coast broadcast, inheriting the talk show slot that had begun with Herb Jepko in 1975, then followed by "Long John" Nebel in 1977, until his illness and death the following year. King's Mutual show rapidly developed a devoted audience.
  The program was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time. King would interview a guest for the first 90 minutes, with callers asking questions that continued the interview for another 90 minutes. At 3 a.m., the Open Phone America segment began, where he allowed callers to discuss any topic they pleased with him, until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions. Many stations in the western time zones carried the Open Phone America portion of the show live, followed by the guest interview on tape delay.
  Some of King's regular callers used pseudonyms or were given nicknames by King, such as "The Numbers Guy", "The Chair", "The Portland Laugher," "The Miami Derelict," and "The Scandal Scooper". The show was successful, starting with relatively few affiliates and eventually growing to more than 500. King hosted the show until stepping down in 1994.  King occasionally entertained the audience by telling amusing stories from his youth or early broadcasting career.
  For its final year, the show was moved to afternoons. After King stepped down, Mutual gave the afternoon slot to David Brenner and  Mutual's affiliates were given the option of carrying the audio of King's new CNN evening television program. After Westwood One dissolved Mutual in 1999, the radio  simulcast of the CNN show continued until December 31, 2009.
caption: King interviewing Vladimir Putin
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