Posted on 12/31/22
| News Source: FOX News
Barbara Walters, a pioneer for women in broadcasting and Emmy Award winner has died at 93, ABC News confirmed.
Walters was a longtime ABC News anchor who also hosted the primetime show "20/20" and created the women's talk show "The View" in 1997.
Walters was born September 25, 1929, in Boston, and soon after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., she took a job as a writer for CBS.
Later, in 1974, she joined NBC's "Today" show as the first female host, after rising through the ranks at the peacock network, according to the New York Post's PageSix.
Two years later, she joined ABC News, where she became the first female anchor of an evening news program and earned an unprecedented-for-the-time $1 million salary.