Connie Chung, Wiki, Age, Career, Quick facts and Net worth

Connie Chung, Biography

Connie Chung is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for several U.S. television news networks. Constance Yu-Hwa Chung, being her full name, has had notable spells at KCBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Her most famous interviews include those with Claus von Bülow and U.S. representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first following the Chandra Levy disappearance. She also interviewed basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. Connie was the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News in 1993.

Connie Chung, Age and Birthday

Chung was born in Washington, D.C., on August 20, 1946. This was less than a year after her family emigrated from China. Connie, the youngest of ten children, was named after singer and actress Constance Moore. Five of her siblings died during the war. William Ling Chung, her father, served as an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government. The 77-year-old Connie Chung was raised in Washington, D.C.

Connie Chung, Education

Chung went to Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a degree in journalism in 1996.

Connie Chung, Journalism Career

Chung served as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for CBS Evening News alongside Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s during the Watergate political scandal. She left to anchor evening newscasts for KCBS-TV, then known as KNXT, a CBS-owned and operated station in Los Angeles. Connie anchored CBS’s primetime news updates for West Coast stations from the KNXT studios during her time there. Chung, in 1993, returned to network news as the anchor of NBC’s new program, NBC News at Sunrise, which aired in the early mornings.

NBC

She also anchored the Saturday edition of NBC Nightly News and occasionally filled in for Tom Brokaw on weeknights. NBC later created two news magazines, American Almanac and 1986, which she alongside Roger Mudd co-hosted. Chung returned to CBS in 1989. She hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung and anchored CBS Sunday Evening News from 1989 to 1993.
The Saturday Night with Connie Chung show was to be moved to Mondays, but Chung’s pregnancy and increasing health commitments led to the show being replaced by The Trials of Rosie O’Neill. After Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976, Connie became the second woman to co-anchor a major network’s national weekday news broadcast.

ABC

Her co-anchoring duties with Dan Rather ended in 1995. Chung then left CBS. She went to ABC News, where she co-hosted the Monday edition of 20/20 with Charles Gibson and did independent interviews.
She served as a guest host of the morning program Good Morning America. Though short-lived host Lisa McRee left the program, Chung declined to take over on a permanent basis. Chung was also on ABC 2000 Today in Las Vegas.

CNN

Chung hosted her own show on CNN, titled Connie Chung Tonight. She was paid $2 million per year. Although her arrival at CNN was heavily hyped by the network, her show was equally criticized. CNN changed her show from live to tape delay in order to improve its continuity. Connie’s show was suspended once the 2003 Iraq War began. During the war, Chung’s work was reduced to reading hourly headlines.

Connie Chung, Teaching Career

Chung joined a teaching fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, during which, she wrote a discussion paper titled The Business of Getting “The Get”: Nailing an Exclusive Interview in Prime Time.

Connie Chung, Spouse and Marriage

Chung married Maury Povich, a talk show host, in 1984. They adopted a son, Matthew Jay Povich, on June 20, 1995. Her marriage to Maury made her convert to Judaism. They have two children, Susan Anne Povich and Amy Povich, from Maury’s previous marriage.

Connie Chung, Height

Connie stands about 1.55 meters tall. Details on her other body measurements are still under review.

Connie Chung, Wikipedia Quick facts

Age: 77 years old.
Birthday: August 20, every year.
Height: 1.55 meters tall
Husband: Maury Povich
Children: Matthew Jay Povich, Amy Povich, and Susan Anne Povich.
Weight: 51kgs.
Net worth: $20 million.
Ethnicity: Asian American
Siblings: Josephine Chen
Education: University of Maryland.

Connie Chung’s net worth

Connie Chung has a net worth estimated at about $20 million. Combined with her husband’s, the Povichs have a net worth of roughly $80 million.

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