SECAUCUS, NJ - January 4, 2006 - “Weekends with Maury & Connie” launches officially on MSNBC Saturday, January 7 at 10 a.m. (ET). The half hour program will team award winning news anchor Connie Chung and her husband, legendary talk show host Maury Povich, for an inside out look at the top news stories of the week.
Touching on everything from politics to pop culture, the program will examine the week’s headlines, from top to bottom. Connie and Maury will explore all sides of a story as only two people who have been married for 20 years can do. They will also speak with a wide range of guests including authors, journalists, newsmakers and entertainers. This will be the first time Connie and Maury have worked together on a national news program. “Weekends with Maury & Connie” will repeat Saturdays at 4 p.m. (ET) and Sundays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. (ET).
Connie Chung’s illustrious news career has included stints at CBS, NBC and ABC. It all began in 1969 at WTTG-TV in Washington, DC, where she started on the copy desk and rose to reporter. While at CBS news, Chung worked as a national correspondent for the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” covering such historic events as the 1972 presidential campaign, Watergate and the Nixon/Brezhnev SALT I talks. She worked at NBC News for several years anchoring the weekend “Nightly News,” “NBC News at Sunrise” and several primetime specials. She returned to CBS News in 1989, anchoring the Emmy Award winning “Face to Face with Connie Chung.” In 1993, she co-anchored the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung.” In 1997, Chung joined ABC News as co-anchor and correspondent for “20/20.” Most recently, Chung anchored “Connie Chung Tonight” on CNN.
Povich, whose storied career includes a 20-year run in national syndication, is currently in his eighth season of the hit NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution talk show “Maury.” Povich also spent time in his early career at WTTG-TV in Washington, DC, first as a news and sports anchor and host of the station’s popular midday talk show, “Panorama.” Povich anchored news in major markets including Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia, returning to WTTG briefly to anchor the news, before joining the long running hit “A Current Affair.” From 1991-1998, Povich hosted the successful talk show “The Maury Povich Show” for Paramount, and in 1998 NBC Universal’s “Maury” made its debut.
Both Chung and Povich are native Washingtonians who have covered politics, political conventions and elections spanning five decades.
Lizz Winstead is executive producer. Winstead was a co-creator and former head writer of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” She was also part of the original creative team that developed Air America Radio and hosted the network’s “Unfiltered.”