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Barbara Walters retirement: Announcement on 'The View'

Barbara Walters retirement: ABC confirms that Barbara Walters will announce her retirement from TV journalism today.

  • By Razier Moore Associated Press

| New York

Pioneering TV news anchor Barbara Walters is set to announce Monday morning on "The View" that she will retire from TV journalism next summer.

ABC said in an announcement late Sunday that, until then, Walters will continue to anchor and report for the network, anchor specials throughout the year, and appear on "The View." She will remain executive producer of "The View," the weekday talk show she created in 1997.

The 83-year-old Walters has spent 37 years at ABC News, joining in 1976 to become the first female co-anchor on an evening network news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.

Before coming to ABC, she spent 15 years at NBC News, where she was a co-host of the "Today" show.

"I am very happy with my decision," Walters said, "and look forward to a wonderful and special year ahead.

"I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she added. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and, OK, some men, too — who will be taking my place."

ABC News President Ben Sherwood said "there is only one Barbara Walters. We look forward to making her final year on television as remarkable, path-breaking and news-making as Barbara herself.

"We look forward to a year befitting her brilliant career," he said, "filled with exclusive interviews, great adventures and indelible memories."

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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