Charles Osgood published a memoir of his boyhood in 2004.
16 Facts About Charles Osgood
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Charles Osgood was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1933.
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Charles Osgood attended St Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey.
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Charles Osgood graduated from Fordham University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
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Charles Osgood often played piano between records on his shows and frequently collaborated with other students including future actor Alan Alda and future producer and director Jack Haley, Jr.
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Immediately after graduating from Fordham, Charles Osgood was hired as an announcer by WGMS and WGMS-FM, the classical music stations in Washington, DC.
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Charles Osgood's roommate was John Cacavas who composed arrangements for the band.
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Unemployed at age 30, Charles Osgood turned to one of his Fordham classmates, Frank McGuire, who directed program development at ABC in New York.
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In 1963, McGuire hired Charles Osgood to be one of the writers and hosts of Flair Reports which related human interest stories on the ABC Radio Network.
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Charles Osgood moved over to CBS Radio in 1967 when it became clear, in his words, that he "wasn't going anywhere" at ABC.
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Charles Osgood ended up working in both radio and television at CBS.
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Charles Osgood was host of Westwood One's The Charles Osgood File, heard four times each weekday morning drive time on radio stations nationwide.
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Each three-minute Charles Osgood File focused on a single story, ranging from a breaking development of national importance to a whimsical human-interest vignette.
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Charles Osgood was a reporter, and served as anchor of the CBS Sunday Night News from 1981 to 1987, co-anchor of the weekday CBS Morning News and frequent news reader on CBS This Morning from 1987 to 1992, as well as occasional anchor of the CBS Afternoon News and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
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On December 21,2017, it was announced that Charles Osgood would retire from the radio show due to health concerns ending his broadcast career.
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In 1956, Charles Osgood wrote a three-act play called A Single Voice.