Gayle King is an American journalist, author, and magazine editor who has a net worth of $40 million. Co-hosting “CBS This Morning” since 2012, she has also worked for O, The Oprah Magazine since 1999 as an editor. In addition to her time as a journalist on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” King aired her talk show on OWN in 2011.
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What is Gayle King’s Net Worth and Salary?
| Net Worth: | $40 Million |
| Salary: | $11 Million |
| Date of Birth: | Dec 28, 1954 (67 years old) |
| Place of Birth: | Chevy Chase |
| Gender: | Female |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Profession: | Actor |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Gayle King CBS Salary
Between 2014 and 2019 Gayle’s salary at CBS was $5.5 million. For this time frame, that’s almost $30,000,000 in gross earnings. As of May 2019, she was making at least $11 million a year thanks to a new contract she secured.
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Gayle King’s Early Life
Gayle King entered this world on December 28, 1954, at the Chevy Chase Hospital in Maryland. Both her mother, Peggy, and her father, Scott, worked from home; Peggy was a housewife and Scott was an electrical engineer.
Since their father was in the military, King and her three younger sisters spent most of their childhood in Turkey. After returning to the United States, Gayle completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Maryland, earning a double major in psychology and sociology in 1976.
King worked as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore after graduating from college, where she had previously worked as a student intern at WTOP-TV. After that, she relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, where she joined WDAF-TV as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter.
Gayle King’s Career
When WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, was looking for a new anchor in 1981, King was their first and only choice. Throughout the show’s 25 seasons, Gayle made 141 appearances as a special correspondent for “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In 1991, King and Robin Wagner co-hosted the NBC daytime talk show “Cover to Cover,” but the show was canceled after only 13 episodes.
There have been three incarnations of “The Gayle King Show” hosted by Gayle: a one-season syndicated talk show in 1997, a show on XM Satellite Radio in 2006, and a show on OWN in 2011. From its relaunch in January 2011 until King’s departure in November of that year to co-anchor “CBS This Morning,” “The Gayle King Show” was in its third iteration.
Erica Hill was one of her original co-hosts on “CBS This Morning,” but she left after only six months, and Charlie Rose was fired in 2017 after s*xual misconduct allegations surfaced. After Hill left, Norah O’Donnell joined the team as a co-anchor, and John Dickerson took Rose’s place in January 2018; both of them departed in May 2019, and Gayle was joined by Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil.
King has co-hosted “Oprah and Friends” on XM Satellite Radio and served as a special correspondent for “Good Morning America.” Gayle made headlines in 2019 for her interview with R. Kelly, in which she remained calm despite Kelly’s outbursts of rage. She gained notoriety in 2018 for publicly demanding that CBS be open about its handling of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against former CEO Leslie Moonves.
Gayle King’s Personal Life
Gayle married attorney and assistant attorney general Bill Bumpus in 1982, but they divorced in 1993 after she caught him in the sack with another woman. Kirby and William Jr. King, born in May 1986 and April 1987, respectively, have Oprah Winfrey as their godmother. Gayle and Oprah’s friendship began in the workplace in 1976, when they were both employed by WJZ-TV, and it has lasted for decades.
In 2018, Oprah gave Gayle an award for her induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and the following year, the two of them starred in a video series for OprahMag.com titled “The OG Chronicles.”
Gayle King’s Awards and Honors
King has won several awards for her journalism, including three Emmys. In 2008, she won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show from the American Women in Radio & Television, and in 2010, she won the Matrix Award and the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information from New York Women in Communications.
For her contributions to the non-profit organization SEO Scholars, Gayle was recognized at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon in 2017; in 2019, “Time” magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.