Mature Talk: Connie Chung (great news anchor)

[HongKongDr]

Connie Chung

AKA Constance Yu-Hwa Chung
Born: 20 - Aug - 1946
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: NBC news anchor
Father: William Chung (d. 1990)
Mother: Margaret
Sister: Josephine
Sister: Charlotte
Sister: June
Sister: Mimi
Husband: Maury Povich (m. 1984)
Son: Matthew Jay Povich (adopted 1995)

EMMY - Three times

TELEVISION
NBC Nightly News: 1983-9, Reporter and sometimes Anchor
CBS Evening News: 1989-95, Co-Anchor 1993-5
20 / 20: Co-Anchor 1998-2002

[OldiesLover]

Oh tell me HongKongDr... Please tell me... You have nude pictures of Connie Chung! :grovel: :grovel: :grovel: :spank:

[basnobasno]

why did she marry maury povich? what does he have on her?

ah!

that's where the nude pics must be!!!

[HongKongDr]

Oh tell me HongKongDr... Please tell me... You have nude pictures of Connie Chung! :grovel: :grovel: :grovel: :spank:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

HongKongDr Have NO pictures of Ms. Connie Chung nude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OldiesLover you " NAUGHTY " man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Connie Chung make great strides for Asian women in news field.

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[OldiesLover]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

HongKongDr Have NO pictures of Ms. Connie Chung nude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OldiesLover you " NAUGHTY " man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Connie Chung make great strides for Asian women in news field.

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Ok... I guess I have to stick with my Connie Chung Fantasy. :o :o :o

My lil Dragon Lady is telling me that Connie Chung is Korean. I hadn't really thought about it, but I tried looking it up and couldn't verify that she's Korean. Does anyone know for sure?

Another thing that's amazing... :amazed:

With all the air time she has had, there is very few pictures of her. :(

[basnobasno]

according to wikipedia, her father was some big wig kuomintang diplomat in taiwan.

apparently she's barren too. her kid's adopted.

even more distressing than her choice of husband was her choice of higher education. she's a terrapin! yikes!?! go noles!

connie's wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Chung)

[OldiesLover]

according to wikipedia, her father was some big wig kuomintang diplomat in taiwan.

apparently she's barren too. her kid's adopted.

even more distressing than her choice of husband was her choice of higher education. she's a terrapin! yikes!?! go noles!

connie's wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Chung)

Yeah, I saw that, but my Korean friends are swearing that she's Korean. So I showed them this:

http://www.wc.pdx.edu/conniechung/ConnieChung.html

They are very disappointed. I ruined my lil Dragon Lady's and Friends... day. :(

[HongKongDr]

Birth name Constance Yu-Hwa Chung

Spouse Maury Povich (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005324/) (2 Dec 1984 - present)

1 child

Trivia

Son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted in 1995

Newscaster

Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland

Daughter-in-law of Shirley Povich (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0693954/).

The only person in history (male or female) to have served as a substitute anchor for all three network nightly newscasts (NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight); as well as all three network morning newscasts (Today, CBS This Morning and Good Morning America)

Attended the University of Maryland, where she first majored in Biology and then switched to Journalism.

Met her future husband, Maury Povich (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005324/), in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, D.C. (WTTN), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.

Youngest of 10, 5 of whom died in China. She has 4 older living sisters - one is Josephine Chen.

Her Chinese name, given to her by her parents, can be translated as "Princess Ivory".

She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive.

She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.

She received teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Personal quotes

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

Source Material: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161202/bio

[HongKongDr]

CHUNG, CONNIE

U.S. Broadcast Journalist

Connie Chung is one of a very small group of women who have achieved prominence in American network news. Along with Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer and Jane Pauley, Chung is one of the leading female journalists on television. Until 1995 she co-anchored the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, as well as Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, a primetime news hour. Following considerable controversy over her interviewing style and reportorial skills, and during which it was reported that Rather had never been happy with the co-anchor arrangement, Chung parted ways with CBS in 1995.

Chung began her journalism career in 1969 as a copyperson at WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C., a Metromedia affiliate, where she later became a newswriter and on-air reporter. She first joined CBS News in 1971, working as a Washington-based correspondent from 1971-76, covering Watergate, Capitol Hill and the 1972 presidential campaign. In 1976 she joined KNXT (now KCBS-TV) the CBS-owned television station in Los Angeles, working on both local and network broadcasts. In her seven years in Los Angeles, Chung co-anchored three daily newscasts, and was a substitute anchor for the CBS Morning News and CBS News' weekend and evening broadcasts. She also anchored CBS News' Newsbreak for the Pacific time zones.

Chung left CBS to join NBC News as a correspondent and anchor. Her assignments included anchoring the Saturday edition of the NBC Nightly News, NBC News at Sunrise, NBC Digests several primetime news specials and the newsmagazine, 1986. She was also contributing correspondent and substitute anchor on the NBC Nightly News broadcast. Chung served as political analysis correspondent and podium correspondent during the 1988 president campaign and political conventions.

When she joined Dan Rather as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, Chung became only the second woman to hold a network anchor job, following Barbara Walters' brief stint as co-anchor with Harry Reasoner on ABC in the mid-1970s. The male-female anchor pairing, already a staple of local news seemed designed also to capitalize on Chung's recognizability. In the Q-ratings (a set of measurements provided by a company called Marketing Evaluations, that gauge the popularity of people who appear on television), Chung has always scored extremely high. At the lime she was named co-anchor, she had one of the highest Q-ratings of any woman in network news. In 1990 she was chosen "favorite interviewer" in U.S. News & World Report's Best of America survey.

In unexpected ways, Chung has foregrounded issues of concern to working women. In 1990, she took the unusual step of announcing plans to postpone her magazine series Face to Face With Connie Chung in order to take time to conceive a child with her husband, syndicated daytime television talk show host Maury Povich. Chung has also been part of the trend toward using newscast anchors on prime-time programs. Her work on nighttime news shows has sometimes drawn criticism, as when the short-lived Saturday Night with Connie Chung was tagged as "infotainment" and charged with undermining the credibility of network news by using controversial techniques such as dramatic re-enactments. Chung was again involved in controversy in early l995, when in an interview with Kathryn Gingrich, the mother of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Chung urged her subject to whisper her son's comments about First Lady Hilary Clinton "just between us." The whisper was picked up by the microphone and used by Chung for broadcast, drawing attacks on Chung's journalistic integrity. This incident was followed by conflict over Chung's assignment to cover the Oklahoma City bombing incident, CBS's apparent plans to "demote" her to the position of weekend anchor, and possibly to cancel her prime time program Eye to Eye with Connie Chung.

Accompanied by an almost palpable strain on the set of the CBS Evening News, as well as by the program's declining ratings, these events led to Chung's departure from CBS amidst charges of sexism, and counter-charges of a lack of journalistic seriousness.

TELEVISION SERIES
1983-89 NBC Nightly News (anchor and reporter)
1983-89 Today Show (anchor and reporter)
1983-89 News Digest (anchor and reporter)
1983-89 NBC News at Sunrise (anchor and reporter) 1985-86 American Almanac (co-host)
1985-86 1986 (co-host)
1989-95 CBS Evening News (reporter)
1989-90 Saturday Night with Connie Chung (host)
1990 Face to Face with Connie Chung (host)
1993-95 CBS Evening News (co-anchor)
1993-95 Eye to Eye with Connie Chung



TELEVISION SPECIALS
1980 Terra Our World
1987 NBC News Report on America: Life in the Fat Lane
1987 Scared Sexless
1988 NBC News Reports on America: Stressed to Kill 1988 Everybody's Doing It

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Source Material: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/chungconnie/chungconnie.htm

[bbenson67]

Connie Chung used to be the local news anchor on the CBS affiliate here in Los Angeles in the '80s along with Brent Musberger, the sports broadcaster who did hard news at the time. To counter her popularity the NBC affiliate hired a Japanese -American lady anchor named Trisha Toyota who was way beyond hot. Ah, those were the days.

I can confirm that Connie is Chinese-American from an anecdote she shared about how small Washington D.C.'s Chinatown was when she was growing up. She said it was about 2 blocks long with some very americanized Chinese restaurants.

[Volcan]

OK, no nudes, but at least bent over? I need ass shots.

[oldies8ladies]

About Connie Chung - Selling herself to speak at places. This is funny.
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Connie Chung

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Before Joining ABC's primetime news magazine program, 20/20 and worked as a correspondent for the network. She has established herself as a pre-eminent reporter numerous times and been honored for her work with multiple awards.

Chung began her journalism career in 1969 in her hometown of Washington, D.C., where she worked at WTTG-TV first as a copy person and later as news writer and, ultimately, a news reporter. She joined CBS News in 1971 as a national correspondent based in Washington. While at CBS, she covered the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Watergate, the Vice Presidency of Nelson Rockefeller, Capitol Hill and politics in general. Additionally, she traveled around the world to report on the Nixon/Brezhnev SALT I talks and on Nixon's final trip to the Middle East.

In 1976, Chung moved to Los Angeles, where she spent seven years as an anchor at KCBS. In 1983, she joined NBC News as a correspondent and anchor. Her assignments at NBC included anchoring the Saturday edition of the NBC Nightly News, NBC News at Sunrise, NBC News Digests, several primetime specials and a news magazine. While at NBC News, she often served as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News. She was a floor correspondent at the 1984 political conventions and a podium correspondent during the 1988 conventions and provided political reporting and analysis during the presidential campaigns and elections.

In 1989 Chung returned to CBS news as anchor and correspondent on Saturday Night With Connie Chung, also anchoring the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News. In 1990, she became the anchor and senior correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning CBS News primetime series, Face to Face with Connie Chung. During this time, she conducted a series of exclusive interviews, including the first and only national television interview of Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez and the first interview with L.A. Lakers star Magic Johnson after his announcement that he was HIV positive. She was also the first network television correspondent to report on the controversy over testing rapists for AIDS, for which she earned the American Bar Association's 1991 Silver Gavel Award.

From 1993 to 1995, Chung co-anchored CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and was anchor and correspondent on Eye to Eye With Connie Chung. During this time, she covered the historic Israeli/PLO signing ceremony at the White House and the Israeli/Jordan signing ceremony in the Middle East. Additionally, she obtained an exclusive interview with Chinese leader Li Peng five years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Chung was a floor reporter for CBS News during the 1992 national political conventions and provided analysis during election night coverage in 1990, 1992 and 1994.
Chung has won several awards for her work, including three Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, the National Educational Media Network's Golden Apple Award, the CINE Golden Eagle Award and honors from American Women in Radio and Television.

During the 1999-2000 season, Chung was awarded the Amnesty International Human Rights Award for her report that revealed that young women in Bangladesh are being brutally burned with acid in acts of revenge for turning down a man's advances. Chung's report included the story of Bina Ahkter, a young woman whose face was severely burned in an acid attack, who is speaking out against violence against women. Also during the 1999-2000 season, Chung won the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award for "Justice Delayed", her investigation that uncovered new information in the 1966 murder of a black Mississippi man named Ben Chester White.

As a result, the U.S. Justice Department opened the case after more than three decades and announced the indictment of Ernest Avants for the murder. He had lived as a free man since his acquittal on state murder charges in 1966. "Justice Delayed" has won a number of other awards, including the 1999 Chicago International Television Competition's Silver Plaque for Investigative Reporting, the 1999 Communicator Award's Crystal Award of Excellence and the United States International Film and Video Festival's first place Gold Camera Award.

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