BILL O'REILLY
Name: Bill O'Reilly.
Born: 10 September 1949 New York City, NY, U.S.
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American
television/radio host, author, and political commentator. He is the host of the
cable news program The O'Reilly Factor. Prior to hosting The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly
served as anchor of the entertainment program, Inside Edition. O'Reilly also
hosts The Radio Factor, a radio program syndicated by Westwood One, and has
written seven books.
O'Reilly was born in New York City to parents William and Angela O'Reilly, from
Brooklyn, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey. His father was an accountant
for the oil company Caltex. In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long
Island. After graduating from Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys
high school in Mineola in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College. While at
Marist, O'Reilly played punter in the National Club Football Association, and
was also a writer for the school's newspaper, The Circle. An honors student, he
majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen
Mary College at the University of London. O'Reilly received his B.A. in
History in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time, as a
pitcher for the Brooklyn Monarchs. He unsuccessfully tried out for the New York
Mets. O'Reilly later earned a master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from
Boston University (where he attended school with Howard Stern) and another
Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
Bill O'Reilly in 1975 as the "Action Consumer trouble shooter" for ABC affiliate
WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami, Florida at age 21,
where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School for two years.
After leaving Miami, O'Reilly returned to school, earning a M.A. in Broadcast
Journalism from Boston University in 1976. While attending Boston University, he
was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news
weeklies, including The Boston Phoenix. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism
internship in Miami during this time, and was also an entertainment writer and
movie critic for The Miami Herald.
O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring
positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the
weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club
Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in
Denver, Colorado where he won a Local Emmy Award for his coverage of a
skyjacking. O'Reilly also worked for KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, as well
as TV stations in Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB-TV), and in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York where he won his
second Local Emmy for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. In 1982, he was
promoted to the network as a CBS News correspondent and covered the wars in El
Salvador and the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
later left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob
Schieffer of riot footage shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires during the
Falklands conflict. (A 1998 novel by O'Reilly, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of
Television and Murder, depicts a television reporter who has a similar dispute
over a Falklands War report. The character proceeds to exact his revenge on
network staff in a series of graphically-described murders.)
In 1986, O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight.
In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS) program
Inside Edition, a tabloid/gossip television program in competition with A
Current Affair. He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for British
TV host David Frost, and subsequently became the program's anchor after Frost's
termination. In addition to being one of the first American broadcasters to
cover the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, O'Reilly also obtained the first
exclusive interview with murderer Joel Steinberg and was the first television
host from a national current affairs program on the scene of the 1992 Los
Angeles riots.
In 1995, O'Reilly was replaced by former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah
Norville on Inside Edition. He then enrolled at the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University, where he received a master's degree in Public
Administration. After Harvard, he was hired by Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of
the then startup FOX News Channel, to anchor The O'Reilly Report. The show soon
moved to a new time slot, and was renamed The O'Reilly Factor.
O'Reilly's radio program reaches 3.25 million-plus listeners and is carried by
more than 400 radio stations. Conservative magazine NewsMax's "Top 25 Talk
Radio Host" list selected O'Reilly to the #2 spot as most influential host in
the nation.
Name: Bill O'Reilly.
Born: 10 September 1949 New York City, NY, U.S.
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American
television/radio host, author, and political commentator. He is the host of the
cable news program The O'Reilly Factor. Prior to hosting The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly
served as anchor of the entertainment program, Inside Edition. O'Reilly also
hosts The Radio Factor, a radio program syndicated by Westwood One, and has
written seven books.
O'Reilly was born in New York City to parents William and Angela O'Reilly, from
Brooklyn, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey. His father was an accountant
for the oil company Caltex. In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long
Island. After graduating from Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys
high school in Mineola in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College. While at
Marist, O'Reilly played punter in the National Club Football Association, and
was also a writer for the school's newspaper, The Circle. An honors student, he
majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen
Mary College at the University of London. O'Reilly received his B.A. in
History in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time, as a
pitcher for the Brooklyn Monarchs. He unsuccessfully tried out for the New York
Mets. O'Reilly later earned a master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from
Boston University (where he attended school with Howard Stern) and another
Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
Bill O'Reilly in 1975 as the "Action Consumer trouble shooter" for ABC affiliate
WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami, Florida at age 21,
where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School for two years.
After leaving Miami, O'Reilly returned to school, earning a M.A. in Broadcast
Journalism from Boston University in 1976. While attending Boston University, he
was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news
weeklies, including The Boston Phoenix. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism
internship in Miami during this time, and was also an entertainment writer and
movie critic for The Miami Herald.
O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring
positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the
weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club
Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in
Denver, Colorado where he won a Local Emmy Award for his coverage of a
skyjacking. O'Reilly also worked for KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, as well
as TV stations in Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB-TV), and in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York where he won his
second Local Emmy for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. In 1982, he was
promoted to the network as a CBS News correspondent and covered the wars in El
Salvador and the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
later left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob
Schieffer of riot footage shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires during the
Falklands conflict. (A 1998 novel by O'Reilly, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of
Television and Murder, depicts a television reporter who has a similar dispute
over a Falklands War report. The character proceeds to exact his revenge on
network staff in a series of graphically-described murders.)
In 1986, O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight.
In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS) program
Inside Edition, a tabloid/gossip television program in competition with A
Current Affair. He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for British
TV host David Frost, and subsequently became the program's anchor after Frost's
termination. In addition to being one of the first American broadcasters to
cover the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, O'Reilly also obtained the first
exclusive interview with murderer Joel Steinberg and was the first television
host from a national current affairs program on the scene of the 1992 Los
Angeles riots.
In 1995, O'Reilly was replaced by former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah
Norville on Inside Edition. He then enrolled at the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University, where he received a master's degree in Public
Administration. After Harvard, he was hired by Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of
the then startup FOX News Channel, to anchor The O'Reilly Report. The show soon
moved to a new time slot, and was renamed The O'Reilly Factor.
O'Reilly's radio program reaches 3.25 million-plus listeners and is carried by
more than 400 radio stations. Conservative magazine NewsMax's "Top 25 Talk
Radio Host" list selected O'Reilly to the #2 spot as most influential host in
the nation.