He has often been the recipient of several (Philadelphia) Achievement in Radio awards, including Best Talk Show Host and Best Evening Program.

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In 1997, against all odds, she created the daytime talk show, The View, a program co-hosted by five women, which was unprecedented at the time.

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The Amarillo, Texas, jury decided the television talk show host did not maliciously harm the U.S. beef industry in a 1996 program on mad cow disease.

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