Biography on sally jesse raphael

American television host

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Born	Sally Ray Lowenthal[1] () February 25, (age&#;89) Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Talk show host
Years&#;active	–present
Spouses	Andrew Vladimir &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Karl Soderland &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;

Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, ), better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, is an American retired tabloid talk demonstrate host, which is best acknowledged for her program Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show).^[2]

Early life and education

Lowenthal was born on February 25, , in Easton, Pennsylvania.

She attended and graduated from Easton Area High School. She also spent time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her father, Jesse Lowenthal, was in the rum exporting business and her mother, Zelda Lowenthal (aka Dede Lowry), ran an art gallery. She has a younger brother, Steven Lowenthal.^[3]

She spent some of her teenage years in Scarsdale, Unused York, (adjacent and north of New York City), where one of her first media jobs was at the local AM radio station, WFAS.

• Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal) is a retired tabloid talk-show host. • She was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and attended Easton Area High School. • She held news correspondent positions with United Press International and Associated Press.

In the delayed s, the station had a program by and for junior high school students and Raphael had the opportunity to decipher the news on the atmosphere. She later attended the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and went to the Caribbean / West Indies islands to attend the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan.

Raphael studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at Modern York City's noted Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.^[4]

She took her mother's maiden name of Raphael as her professional last name and plucked the theatrical surname of Jessy from her father's family to use as a distinguishing middle name.^[5]

Career

Journalism and broadcasting

Following her graduation from the Columbia University on Morningside Heights in northwest Manhattan borough of New York City, she became a news correspondent, covering Pivotal America because of her Puerto Rican heritage and connections for the two major competing American news-gathering syndicates of the hour, Associated Press (A.P.) and the United Press International (U.P.I.), also thanks in large part to her ability to speak both English and Spanish fluently and to easily translate and switch between the two.

She also obtained considerable experience in the media in Puerto Rico, where she worked in both radio and television. One of her first jobs was hosting a TV cooking show. While active in radio, she met the man who became her second husband, Karl Soderlund, who was the general manager of a radio station there that hired her.

After he was unfortunately fired, the two left Puerto Rico to work back on the continent in Miami, Florida (with its heavily bi-lingual Hispanic population). While Raphael was on the air as a radio announcer in Miami, she met and became friends with veteran journalist and talk show host Larry King, who later became a nationally famous and epic with his late night wide-ranging radio interview program on the Mutual Broadcasting System in tardy s and early s, and later on cable television as hosted nightlive TV talk display host Larry King Live on CNN (Cable News Network), which aired from to ^{[citation needed]}

Raphael's broadcasting career was not an immediate success.

She told numerous reporters over the years that she bounced around from station to station in both Puerto Rico and the United States, working as a disc jockey, news reporter, and the host of a show where she interviewed celebrities. She worked at 24 various stations, and was fired from 18 of them.

What happened to Sally Jessy Raphael? Where is she today?: Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, ), better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, is an American retired tabloid talk show host, which is best known for her program Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show).

In the early s, she was asked to do a call-in advice show on WMCA in New York City. In the late s, she even guest starred as herself in The Equalizer TV series in the episode "Making of a Martyr".

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Talk show

Raphael's husband Karl Soderlund assumed the role of her manager, and was a partner in her two biggest successes.

She hosted a radio call-in advice show distributed by NBC Talknet that ran from to , but she is best known for hosting the television talk show The Sally Jessy Raphael Show (later shortened to Sally), which ran in first-run syndication from October 17, , to May 24, ^{[citation needed]} "Talknet" was identity new when she came to the attention of producer Maurice Tunick.

Sally was raised in Easton alongside her younger brother Steven Lowenthal, by their mother Zelda Lowenthal, also known as Dede Lowry, who ran an art gallery, and their father Jesse Lowenthal who worked in rum exporting. Upon receiving her degree, Sally was employed at both United Press International and Associated Press, mostly thanks to her ability to speak both Spanish and English fluently; she was hired as a news correspondent, and was in accuse of covering Central America. She mostly worked in Puerto Rico during her career beginnings, and one of her jobs was hosting a cooking show. It was also in Puerto Rico that Sally met her second husband, producer and radio station manager Karl Soderlund, and after Karl was fired, the two moved to Miami, Florida together.

According to David Richards of The Washington Post, Tunick had auditioned a number of potential hosts, but hadn't yet set up the right one. Tunick gave Raphael a one-hour trial race on NBC's Washington, D.C., affiliate, WRC, in August Before going on the air, she decided that rather than doing a political show, she would offer advice and discuss subjects she knew a lot about, such as relationship problems.

Soon, her advice show was being heard on over radio stations, and she developed a loyal community of fans.^[6]

One of those fans turned out to be iconic talk show host Phil Donahue, who happened to hear her show one night and liked how she related to the audience.

His encouragement led to a tryout on television, where producer Burt Dubrow gave her a chance to be a guest host on his chat show.

Following the death of her husband inSally has been focused on spending time with her grandchildren, Max and Kyle. Of Jewish ancestry, she has a younger brother Steven Lowenthal. While growing up, Sally spent some time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as her father was in the rum exporting business, and her mother ran an art gallery there. Before she had her own discuss show, Sally was in journalism; she moved to San Juan following her graduation from Columbia University, and there launched her radio career, landing a position at the San Juan radio station WHOA.

She was not very polished, but people who had loved her radio exhibition were very positive about her being on TV. Her non-threatening and common-sense manner appealed to Dubrow, who believed she would gain more confidence as she got some TV experience.

By mid-October , she was given her own show on KSDK-TV in St. Louis. The Sally Jessy Raphael Show was only a half-hour, but it was the beginning of her thriving career as a talk demonstrate host. ^{[citation needed]}

Raphael became established to television viewers for her oversized red-framed glasses, a registered name that began entirely by accident.

The source of her celebrated red-framed glasses goes all the way back to her first broadcast news job.^{[citation needed]} Raphael had difficulty reading the teleprompter and, with five minutes before air time, quickly went to a store across the highway from the studio to purchase a pair of reading glasses.

The only one she could find was a red pair. While her bosses disliked them, the audience seemed to reflect they looked good, so she kept wearing that style.^{[citation needed]}

By , both Raphael and The Jerry Springer Show were in decline.

As one media critic observed, Springer's ratings were the lowest they had been in three years, but Raphael's ratings were the lowest they had been in 12 years. Raphael was already having problems with her syndicator: she believed that USA Networks Inc.

was more interested in doing promotion for Springer, whose show was more popular than hers, and for Maury Povich, who had recently left Paramount Television to connect USA's syndication arm, than they ever were for her possess show.

She celebrated her 3,th episode in early By Rally , it was announced that, after an year run, her show was being cancelled. In , Raphael was named by Talkers Magazine to both their 25 Greatest Radio Talk Performance Hosts of all time (#5), and the 25 Greatest Television Talk Show Hosts of all time (#11).

She was one of only three personalities to make both the radio and the TV lists.^[7]

From approximately to , she hosted a daily radio show, Sally Jessy Raphael on Talknet (previously called Sally JR's Open House), on the Internet and in syndication to local radio stations.

The show's flagship station was WVIE, broadcasting from Baltimore, Maryland, and the show aired on numerous AM stations in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, in addition to one station KWFM in Arizona. The show also aired on XM Satellite Radio's America's Talk channel from November 19, , until its finish eight months later.

The specify "Talknet" is a revival of the name of the aged NBC Talknet, the now-defunct radio network that carried her previous radio show from to She abruptly ended the Talknet program July 7, ^{[citation needed]}

On November 10, , Raphael, along with former famous national talk reveal hosts Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake and Montel Williams, were invited as guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[8]

Raphael offered to induct conservative talk exhibit host Rush Limbaugh (–), into the Radio Hall of Fame when he was voted into the Hall in Surprised by the offer, Limbaugh accepted, only to see Raphael use her speech to speak out against the vote and excoriate Limbaugh.

The following day, longtime radio news commentator Paul Harvey used his radio program to defend Limbaugh, who was privately offend by Raphael's betrayal. In an act of retribution, one of Limbaugh's staffers slipped a picture of Raphael without her makeup or trademark glasses (taken from one of Raphael's staffers, as both hosts worked in the same studio at the time) onto Limbaugh's television program without his knowledge.^[9]

In , Raphael hosted the Logo web series Sally Jessy Rides.^[10]

In , Raphael cameo in the Everybody Still Hates Chris episode "Everybody Still Hates Drew’s Brother".

Personal life

Raphael was married for the first period in to Andrew Vladimir; they divorced seven years later.^[11][12] They had two daughters, Allison and Andrea, and two grandsons, Max and Kyle.

Allison died at the age of 33 on February 2, ; her death was ruled an accidental overdose because of "combined effects of several prescribed drugs and over-the-counter medications."^[13]

She married Karl Soderlund in ^[14] He later became her manager.

Lowenthal was born on February 25,in Easton, Pennsylvania. She attended and graduated from Easton Area High School. She has a younger brother, Steven Lowenthal. In the late s, the station had a program by and for junior high educational facility students and Raphael had the opportunity to read the news on the air.

They acquire one adopted son, Jason, and three foster children.^[14] They were married for 57 years until Soderlund's death in ^[15]

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