1. Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the US television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.
20 Facts About Connie Chung
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Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bulow and US representative Gary Condit, whom Connie Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive.
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The youngest of ten children, Connie Chung was born in Washington, DC, less than a year after her family emigrated from China, and was raised in Washington, DC Her father, William Ling Connie Chung, was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government, and five of her siblings died during wartime.
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Connie Chung was named after singer and actress Constance Moore.
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Connie Chung attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Connie Chung left to anchor evening newscasts for KNXT, a CBS owned and operated station in Los Angeles.
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The Los Angeles Times TV columnist said Connie Chung "helped give Channel 2 an agreeable, respectable, middle-road identity".
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Connie Chung anchored CBS's primetime news updates for West Coast stations from the KNXT studios at Columbia Square during her tenure there.
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In 1983, Connie Chung returned to network news as anchor of NBC's new early program, NBC News at Sunrise, which was scheduled as the lead-in to the Today program.
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Connie Chung was anchor of the Saturday edition of NBC Nightly News and filled in for Tom Brokaw on weeknights.
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The former show was planned to move to Mondays, but Connie Chung's increasing health commitments and pregnancy led to the show being replaced by The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.
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Connie Chung asked Mrs Gingrich to "just whisper it to me, just between you and me"; Mrs Gingrich's microphone volume was turned up as she replied, "He thinks she's a bitch".
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Consequently, after public outcry, and Rather's complaints, Connie Chung left the network after being removed as co-anchor of CBS Evening News.
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Connie Chung was a guest host of the morning program Good Morning America.
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Once CNN resumed regular programming, Connie Chung requested that CNN resume broadcasting her show as soon as possible.
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In July 2002, Connie Chung interviewed tennis player Martina Navratilova, who at that time had been a naturalized US citizen for more than 20 years, about her recent criticisms of the US political system.
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When Navratilova asked why it was unpatriotic to speak out, Connie Chung replied, "Well, you know the old line, love it or leave it".
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Connie Chung's interviews were largely gentle, but often they were punctuated by a rapid-fire barrage of sharp questions.
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Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bulow and US representative Gary Condit, whom Connie Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance.
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Connie Chung has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984.