Maury Povich

Maury Povich Net Worth

Maury Povich Net Worth: Maury Povich is an American television personality, former journalist and news anchor who has a net worth of $60 million and an annual salary of $14 million. Maury Povich was born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C. His father Shirley Povich was a sportswriter for the Washington Post. Maury graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and first worked at a radio station in Washington, D.C.. While he is best known as the host of the tabloid talk show Maury, he formerly worked as a reporter, sportscaster and even as a news anchor between 1962 and 1983. He first came into prominence in 1967 with the midday talk show Panorama before a stint as a news anchor at stations in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Between 1986 and 1990 he worked as a host on A Current Affair. Other television shows Maury Povich has hosted include The Maury Povich Show, Maury, Twenty-One and Weekends with Maury and Connie. His co-host on that last show, Connie Chung, is Maury's long-time wife. He appeared as himself in the fourth episode of the sixth season of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother; he is portrayed as a New Yorker who is apparently seen everywhere in the city—often in several places at once. He also appeared as himself in the film Madea's Big Happy Family. In May 2007, he launched the Flathead Beacon, a weekly print newspaper and online news source in Montana's Flathead County, where he has a home and is a member at the Eagle Bend Golf Club. Povich began hosting his talk show Maury in 1991 and celebrated 1,200 episodes in 2017.  Povich was honored by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for raising awareness for National Adoption Month in 1995. His TV show has often been considered trashy and he frequently has shows where suspected fathers are given paternity tests.