Contest: Larry King (06-01-2010)

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host.

He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers. King has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.

King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s. He became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN, which started in 1985.

King has been married eight times, to seven women. He first married high-school sweetheart Freda Miller in 1952 at age 19. He married his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, a former singer and TV host, in 1997 in King's Los Angeles hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel. On King and Southwick's 10th anniversary in September 2007, Southwick boasted she was "the only wife to have lasted into the two digits".

King has received many broadcasting awards. He has also won 10 CableACE awards for Best Interviewer and for Best Talk Show Series. In 1989, King was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and in 1996 to the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In 2002, the industry magazine Talkers named King both the fourth-greatest radio talk show host of all time and the top television talk show host of all time.