Charles Osgood, veteran CBS newsman and longtime host of "Sunday Morning," dies at 91 [View all]
Source: CBS News
January 23, 2024 / 1:21 PM EST
Award-winning journalist Charles Osgood, who anchored "CBS Sunday Morning" for 22 years and was host of the long-running radio program "The Osgood File," died Tuesday at home in New Jersey. He was 91. The cause of death was dementia, his family said.
Osgood, a gifted news writer, poet and author, spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in September 2016. Osgood began anchoring "CBS Sunday Morning" in 1994. During his run on the show it reached its highest ratings levels in three decades, and three times earned the Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Morning Program.
"For years now people — even friends and family — have been asking me why I keep doing this considering my age," Osgood said when he retired in 2016 at 84. "It's just that it's been such a joy doing it! Who wouldn't want to be the one who gets to introduce these terrific storytellers and the producers and writers and others who put this wonderful show together."
Osgood said then it has "been a great run." He interviewed such luminaries as chef Julia Child, graffiti artist-turned-gallery star Keith Haring, painter Andrew Wyeth, sculptor Louise Nevelson, and singer-songwriter Sting.
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Wow. I had lost track of him and hadn't heard his name in awhile. Now I guess I know why.
What a loss and R.I.P. Thanks for the old-school memories of the way those shows used to be.
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