China News Service, San Francisco, January 23. According to US media reports, Larry King, a well-known American show host, died in a hospital in Los Angeles, California on the 23rd local time at the age of 87.

  The New York Times reported that on the 23rd, Ora Media, a company co-founded by Larry King and others, issued a statement on Larry King’s personal Twitter account saying that Larry King was at Cedars-Sinai Medical in Los Angeles on the same day. The center died.

CNN reported that Larry King’s son, Chance Armstrong, also confirmed the news of his father’s death.

Currently, the cause of Larry King's death has not been announced.

According to reports, Larry King has struggled with a variety of health problems for a long time and was recently admitted to the hospital for treatment due to infection with the new crown virus.

  Larry King, born in 1933, was the son of European immigrants. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He had no college education and experienced many marriages in his life.

From the 1950s to the 1960s, he started working as an announcer for a local radio station in Florida.

Larry King hosted the "Larry King Live" program on CNN for 25 years, interviewing presidential candidates, celebrities, athletes, movie stars and ordinary people.

After recording more than 6000 episodes, he retired in 2010.

  Ora Media said in a statement that in 63 years, Larry King’s countless interviews, awards and global praise on various platforms of radio, television and digital media have proved his talent in his professional field.

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