old larry set off for the sunshine state in such of golden opportunities that he said goodbye to lawrence vida and became larry king he took a gig as a d.j. all the while freelancing writing columns and trying to get on the air waves and from those humble beginnings he started he walked his way towards his big break came in 1978 when king landed the upon a miss the late night radio larry king show t.v.'s fast life world wide phone and program it started in 28 cities 5 years later it was in 118 nary king became a household name radios number one interviewer larry king thank you very much good evening everybody on this tuesday night wednesday morning across the united states this is larry king's show 10 years at peabody award on an emulator king decided it was time to move on and larry king live was born a smash hit from start to finish the longest running most watched show on c.n.n. pulling in a 1000000 viewers nightly for 25 years king with his trademark baritone sat down with presidents of rappers ballerinas even preachers and even killers mark where you really live with us those terrible mom