Longtime Television Host Jerry Springer Dies At 79

Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate reports:

Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79.

At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.

Springer called it “escapist entertainment,” while others saw the show as contributing to a dumbing-down decline in American social values. Springer died peacefully at home in suburban Chicago after a brief illness, the statement said.

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BREAKING: Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor whose namesake TV show unleashed chaos on weekday afternoons, has died at 79. #RIP https://t.co/4zO0aqe86p

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