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Barbara Walters Age 80

December 22, 2011 by · Comments Off on Barbara Walters Age 80 

Barbara Walters Age 80Barbara Walters Age 80, Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is a distinguished American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television newsmagazine (20/20), former co-anchor of the ABC World News, and current contributor to ABC News.

Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC’s Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News, and continuing as a contributor to the network news division and its flagship program, ABC World News.

In 1996, Walters was ranked #34 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

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