Legendary talk show host Larry King has been in a Los Angeles hospital for the past week with COVID-19. In 1978, King began a nightly midnight-to-dawn radio show on 28 cities over the Mutual Broadcasting System. By the 1980s, The Larry King Show was being carried by more than 250 affiliates.
King, who has Type 2 diabetes, has also had several heart attacks and quintuple bypass surgery. In 2017, he revealed he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and successfully underwent surgery to treat it. He also underwent a procedure in 2019 to address angina.
Larry King was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
