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27.04.2023 - 18:11 / usmagazine.com
A television icon. Jerry Springer is best known for his eponymous talk show, but his broadcasting career began when he was still a college student.
The London-born star cut his teeth with a radio show while enrolled at Tulane University. He went on to become a political reporter and commentator on Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate, WLWT. During his tenure on the show in the 1980s and early 1990s, the low-rated broadcast became the Cincinnati market’s top-rated news show. With the help of some of his WLWT colleagues, Springer created his signature catchphrase, “Take care of yourself and each other.”
The journalist was also a politician long before Jerry Springer’s 1991 premiere. He was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971 but resigned in 1974 after he admitted to soliciting a sex worker. However, the scandal was not the end of his political career.
Springer won back his council seat in 1975 after honestly addressing his past. He opened up about the controversy again in a television advertisement for his 1982 Ohio gubernatorial run.
”This commercial should be proof. I’m not afraid, even of the truth, and even if it hurts,” he said in the ad.
Although the attorney didn’t win the election, he went on to achieve massive success with his daytime talk show, which ran from 1991 to 2018. Originally created to mimic the format of The Phil Donahue Show, Jerry Springer was later revamped to feature everyday people dealing with controversial issues. Arguments between guests would often result in physical fights.
During a November 2022 appearance on David Yontef’s “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast, Springer apologized for how the program affected the television landscape.
“I just
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