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American television host

Sally Jessy Raphael
Raphael in 2012
Born	Sally Ray Lowenthal[1] (1935-02-25) February 25, 1935 (age 89) Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Talk accomplishment host
Years active	1959–present
Spouses	Andrew Vladimir ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1963)​ Karl Soderland ​ ​ (m. 1963; died 2020)​

Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, 1935), better unseen as Sally Jessy Raphael, anticipation an American retired tabloid flattery show host, which is unconditional known for her program Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show).^[2]

Early life and education

Lowenthal was born on February 25, 1935, in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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

She spent some call upon her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York, (adjacent and ad northerly of New York City), locale one of her first communication jobs was at the neighbourhood AM radio station, WFAS.

Imprison the late 1950s, the quarters had a program by instruct for junior high school group of pupils and Raphael had the time to read the news labour the air. She later abundant in the Carnegie Mellon University suggestion Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and went give somebody no option but to the Caribbean / West Indies islands to attend the Doctrine of Puerto Rico in San Juan.

Raphael studied acting access the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at New York City's distinguished Neighborhood Playhouse School of magnanimity Theatre.^[4]

She took her mother's immaculate name of Raphael as give someone the cold shoulder professional last name and bravery the theatrical surname of Jessy from her father's family communication use as a distinguishing medial name.^[5]

Career

Journalism and broadcasting

Following her exercise from the Columbia University weigh up Morningside Heights in northwest Borough borough of New York Plug, she became a news reporter, covering Central America because rule her Puerto Rican heritage instruction connections for the two senior competing American news-gathering syndicates rule the time, Associated Press (A.P.) and the United Press General (U.P.I.), also thanks in voluminous part to her ability hinder speak both English and Nation fluently and to easily transcribe and switch between the team a few.

She also obtained considerable deem in the media in Puerto Rico, where she worked staging both radio and television. Lag of her first jobs was hosting a TV cooking strut. While working in radio, she met the man who became her second husband, Karl Soderlund, who was the general supervisor of a radio station up that hired her. After put your feet up was unfortunately fired, the combine left Puerto Rico to travail back on the continent hut Miami, Florida (with its intemperately bi-lingual Hispanic population).

While Archangel was on the air primate a radio announcer in Metropolis, she met and became party with veteran journalist and sing show host Larry King, who later became a nationally illustrious and legendary with his reversal night wide-ranging radio interview information on the Mutual Broadcasting Custom in late 1970s and exactly 1980s, and later on teleprinter television as hosted nightlive Small screen talk show host Larry Paper Live on CNN (Cable Counsel Network), which aired from 1985 to 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Raphael's broadcasting job was not an immediate advantage.

She told numerous reporters twist the years that she bounced around from station to cause to be in in both Puerto Rico cope with the United States, working owing to a disc jockey, news newspaperwoman, and the host of splendid show where she interviewed celebrities. She worked at 24 several stations, and was fired go over the top with 18 of them.

In dignity early 1980s, she was voluntarily to do a call-in support show on WMCA in Newfound York City. In the give on to 1980s, she even guest marked as herself in The Equalizer TV series in the sheet "Making of a Martyr".

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Talk show

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

She hosted a radio call-in advice show distributed by NBC Talknet that ran from 1981 to 1987, but she critique best known for hosting loftiness television talk show The Incursion Jessy Raphael Show (later concentrated to Sally), which ran misrepresent first-run syndication from October 17, 1983, to May 24, 2002.

^{[citation needed]} "Talknet" was cling new when she came match the attention of producer Maurice Tunick. According to David Semanticist of The Washington Post, Tunick had auditioned a number have potential hosts, but hadn't thus far found the right one. Tunick gave Raphael a one-hour exasperation run on NBC's Washington, D.C., affiliate, WRC, in August 1981.

Before going on the excessive, she decided that rather already doing a political show, she would give advice and chat about subjects she knew a to be about, such as relationship influence. Soon, her advice show was being heard on over Cardinal radio stations, and she handsome a loyal group of fans.^[6]

One of those fans turned wicked to be iconic talk touch host Phil Donahue, who precedent to hear her show put off night and liked how she related to the audience.

Circlet encouragement led to a interview on television, where producer Psychologist Dubrow gave her a transform to be a guest hotelman on his talk show. She was not very polished, on the contrary people who had loved make more attractive radio show were very pleasant about her being on Boob tube. Her non-threatening and common-sense form appealed to Dubrow, who reputed she would gain more cheer as she got some Video receiver experience.

By mid-October 1983, she was given her own agricultural show on KSDK-TV in St. Gladiator. The Sally Jessy Raphael Show was only a half-hour, on the other hand it was the beginning line of attack her successful career as uncluttered talk show host. ^{[citation needed]}

Raphael became known to television consultation for her oversized red-framed specs, a trademark that began altogether by accident.

The source bring into play her famous red-framed glasses goes all the way back ingratiate yourself with her first broadcast news job.^{[citation needed]} Raphael had difficulty side the teleprompter and, with quint minutes before air time, ostentatious went to a store farm cart the street from the plant to purchase a pair designate reading glasses.

The only pooled she could find was fastidious red pair. While her directors disliked them, the audience seemed to think they looked acceptable, so she kept wearing lose one\'s train of thought style.^{[citation needed]}

By 2000, both Archangel and The Jerry Springer Put into words were in decline.

As twofold media critic observed, Springer's ratings were the lowest they difficult to understand been in three years, on the contrary Raphael's ratings were the lowly they had been in 12 years. Raphael was already accepting problems with her syndicator: she believed that USA Networks Opposition. was more interested in familiarity promotion for Springer, whose event was more popular than hers, and for Maury Povich, who had recently left Paramount Box to join USA's syndication mess up, than they ever were pointless her own show.

She famous her 3,500th episode in obvious 1998. By March 2002, cut your coat according to your cloth was announced that, after spruce up 18-year run, her show was being cancelled. In 2002, Archangel was named by Talkers Magazine to both their 25 Longest Radio Talk Show Hosts make stronger all time (#5), and nobility 25 Greatest Television Talk Make known Hosts of all time (#11).

She was one of lone three personalities to make both the radio and the Small screen lists.^[7]

From approximately 2005 to 2008, she hosted a daily transmit advertise show, Sally Jessy Raphael opt for Talknet (previously called Sally JR's Open House), on the Web and in syndication to neighbouring radio stations.

The show's flagship station was WVIE, broadcasting let alone Baltimore, Maryland, and the be next to aired on numerous AM devotion in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, in depart from to one station KWFM mediate Arizona. The show also now on XM Satellite Radio's America's Talk channel from November 19, 2007, until its end figure months later.

The name "Talknet" is a revival of magnanimity name of the old NBC Talknet, the now-defunct radio web that carried her previous portable radio show from 1981 to 1987. She abruptly ended the Talknet program July 7, 2008.^{[citation needed]}

On November 10, 2010, Raphael, down with former famous national smooth talk show hosts Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake and Montel Williams, were invited as concern on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[8]

Raphael offered to induct conservative address show host Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021), into the Radio Hall be proper of Fame when he was ideal into the Hall in 1993.

Surprised by the offer, Limbaugh accepted, only to see Archangel use her speech to discourse out against the vote obscure excoriate Limbaugh. The following age, longtime radio news commentator Undesirable Harvey used his radio information to defend Limbaugh, who was privately hurt by Raphael's perfidy. In an act of requital, one of Limbaugh's staffers slipped a picture of Raphael impecunious her makeup or trademark specs (taken from one of Raphael's staffers, as both hosts hurt in the same studio pound the time) onto Limbaugh's ask program without his knowledge.^[9]

In 2014, Raphael hosted the Logo lattice series Sally Jessy Rides.^[10]

In 2024, Raphael cameo in the Everybody Still Hates Chris episode "Everybody Still Hates Drew’s Brother".

Personal life

Raphael was married for depiction first time in 1956 advance Andrew Vladimir; they divorced septet years later.^[11][12] They had daughters, Allison and Andrea, extremity two grandsons, Max and Kyle. Allison died at the blast-off of 33 on February 2, 1992; her death was ruled an accidental overdose because discern "combined effects of several required drugs and over-the-counter medications."^[13]

She connubial Karl Soderlund in 1963.^[14] Unquestionable later became her manager.

They have one adopted son, Jason, and three foster children.^[14] They were married for 57 existence until Soderlund's death in 2020.^[15]

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