Charlie Rose

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Charlie Rose

Charles Peete Rose Jr. (b. January 5, 1942 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American television interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for 60 Minutes II, he currently hosts the interview show Charlie Rose for PBS.

[edit] Life and career

As a child Charlie lived in rooms above the family-operated general store with his parents, Charlie Rose Sr. and Margaret. Charlie helped out with the family business from age 7.

A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University planning on pre-med, but an internship in the office of North Carolina senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. He earned a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law in 1968. Rose also attended New York University Stern School of Business.

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), he handled some assignments for the BBC on a freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of Bill Moyers' Journal.

Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers' series U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976 Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the Charlie Rose show.

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. He was romantically linked with Amanda Burden (daughter of the late Babe Paley and Stanley Mortimer)from 1993 until they broke up in 2005.

Rose worked for CBS News (1984-1990) as the anchor of CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast. The Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won an Emmy Award in 1987.

In 1990 Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of Personalities, a syndicated program produced by Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show.

Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET on 30 September 1991 and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing. Starting in 2006, the show has been one of the many TV shows available for download via Google Video.

Since 2003, Rose has sat on the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation.

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Charlie Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for mitral valve repair in the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of Dr. Alain Carpentier, a pioneer of the mitral valve repair procedure. Rose returned on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss Rose's surgery and recuperation.