Judy Licht is an American television and print journalist whose work often focuses on the entertainment and fashion worlds. Born to Bernard and Eleanor Licht of New York, Licht graduated from Connecticut College and received her master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. [1]
For decades Licht has held many on-air positions in the New York metropolitan area, such as co-anchor of Good Morning New York on WABC-TV, as a reporter on WCBS-TV, WNYW-TV and WNYE-TV, and was long the main host of the fashion program Full Frontal Fashion . She currently writes a column on the fashion world for The Huffington Post and has also written on fashion for such publications as Details , New York and the New York Daily News . [2]
Licht married prominent advertising executive Jerry Della Femina in 1983. [3] They maintained a restaurant, Della Femina, in East Hampton, until it was sold early in 2011. Licht and Della Femina collaborated on a television program for NY1 in the early 90s, The Jerry and Judy Show. [4] Licht is Jewish whereas Della Femina is Catholic; the couple raised their two children (a boy and a girl, both now adults) with a synthesis of the two religions. [5]
WABC-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to New York, New York, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WABC-TV's studios are located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
Live with Kelly and Ryan is an American syndicated morning talk show hosted by Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. Executive produced by Michael Gelman, the Live with... show formula has aired under various hosts since 1983 locally on WABC-TV in New York City and 1988 nationwide. As of 2016, it is produced by WABC.
Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by Judy Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small-claim disputes within a simulated courtroom set. Prior to the proceedings, all involved parties signed arbitration contracts agreeing to Sheindlin's ruling. The show airs in first-run syndication, and is distributed by CBS Media Ventures. The show's first episode aired on September 16, 1996 with its final episode scheduled to air on June 25, 2021. Afterward, reruns from all 25 seasons are set to air.
Gerald Patrick Mathers is an American actor. Mathers is best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963, in which he played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver and the brother of Wally Cleaver.
Judith Susan Sheindlin, known professionally as Judge Judy, is an American prosecutor, former Manhattan family court judge, television personality, television producer, and author. Since September 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own successful four-time Daytime Emmy Award–winning arbitration-based court show series, Judge Judy. Sheindlin will end her popular program after its 25th season (2020–21), then launch Judy Justice, a similar series.
Judy Carline Woodruff is a U.S. broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.
Brian Kilmeade is an American television and radio presenter and political commentator for Fox News. On weekdays he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, and he hosts the Fox News Radio program The Brian Kilmeade Show. He has authored or co-authored non-fiction and fiction books.
Tawny Little, Miss America 1976 and Miss New York 1975, is an American television personality.
CBS This Morning (CTM) is an American morning television program that is broadcast on CBS. The program, which shares its title with a more traditionally formatted morning news program which aired from 1987 to 1999, is broadcast Monday through Saturday. It airs live from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone. On weekdays, it airs on tape-delay in the Central and Mountain Time Zones; stations in the Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii Time Zones receive an updated feed with a specialized opening and updated live reports. Stations outside the Eastern Time Zone carry the Saturday broadcast at varied times. It is the tenth distinct morning news-features program format that CBS has aired since 1954, having replaced The Early Show on January 9, 2012.
Willow Bay is an American television journalist, editor, author, and former model. In 2017, she became Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism having earlier served as Director of USC Annenberg School of Journalism. She was previously a Senior Editor for the Huffington Post, and a Special Correspondent for Bloomberg Television.
Ninotchka "Nina" García is a Colombian-American fashion journalist, the editor-in-chief of Elle, and a judge on the Bravo/Lifetime reality television program Project Runway since its first season.
Harold Dieterle III is an American top chef, best known as the winner of the first season of the Bravo television network's reality television series Top Chef. After winning Top Chef, he owned and ran three restaurants in New York City: Perilla, Kin Shop, and The Marrow. He closed all three in 2014 and 2015. In 2019 Dieterle opened a new restaurant, "Ten Hope", in Williamsburg.
Jerry Della Femina is an American advertising executive and restaurateur. Starting from a poor Italian background in Brooklyn, he eventually became chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners, an agency which he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s. Over the next two decades they grew the company into a major advertising house that was billing $250 million per year and had 300 employees and offices in both New York and Los Angeles. Della Femina is known for his larger-than-life personality and colorful language, and was referred to as a "'Madman' of Madison Avenue". In 1970, he wrote a book about the advertising industry, humorously titled, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War. The book became a best-seller, described by The Guardian as "one of the defining books about advertising", and eventually inspired the television series Mad Men.
Elsa Klensch is an Australian-American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion. She was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001. She married Chuck Klensch in 1966.
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