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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

ABCScheduled whenever there's room on ABC's scheduleHost:Regis Philbin The surprise hit of the season and perhaps the decade, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, inspired by a British gameshow,…

Internet Timeline

Read about milestones, advancements, and major breakthroughs in the development of the Internet. 1969 ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major…

Steve Kim Biography

Steve Kimelectronics entrepreneurBorn: 1952Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea After studying electrical engineering for four years, Kim emigrated to the United States in 1976. While stocking…

Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer anchored ABC's World News Tonight and was previously the longtime host of the network's morning show Good Morning America. A graduate of Wellesley College (1967), Sawyer got her start…

Matt Lauer

Matt Lauer was a television news anchor and a co-host of NBC's Today, from 1997 until 2017, when he was abruptly fired by the network in for "inappropriate sexual conduct." Lauer went to Ohio…

Barry Diller

Film and television veteran Barry Diller is the chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, a new media conglomerate specializing in e-commerce. In the 1960s Diller was a television…

Miss Cleo

Name at birth: Youree HarrisA sassy self-proclaimed psychic with a lilting Caribbean accent, Miss Cleo was the star of late-night TV infomercials in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Claiming to be a…

Bobby Flay

Name at birth: Robert William FlayNew Yorker Bobby Flay is a chef, restaurant owner and star of the Food Network shows Boy Meets Grill, Bobby Flay's Throwdown and Iron Chef America. From a well-to-do…

Ed O’Neill

Stage and screen actor Ed O'Neill is best known for playing Al Bundy, the coarse and sluggardly husband in TV's Married with Children, which aired originally on the Fox Network from 1987 to 1997. A…

Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman is a comedian with a taste for playing dozens of characters, often with heavy makeup and accents, in her TV shows. She was a dancer and had a successful singing career in the U.K. (with…