Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters began her groundbreaking television career in 1961, evolving from a writer and segment producer to become a prominent on-air personality and the first female co-host of NBC's Today in 1974. Her barrier-breaking continued at ABC, where she served as the first female co-anchor of an evening news program in 1976 and later as a long-standing anchor for the newsmagazine 20/20 from 1979 to 2004. As a television Creator, Walters further cemented her legacy by launching and co-hosting the popular daytime talk show The View in 1997, remaining a central figure until her retirement from daily television in 2014.