- As of 2009, he surpassed Charles Kuralt (who hosted from 1979 to his retirement in 1994) as the longest-serving host of CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979). At the time of Osgood's retirement in 2016, he had been hosting the show for 22 years (beginning 1994, and ending 2016).
- Owns a house in the south of France.
- Every summer, when Osgood was young, he and his sister both spent most of their times at their grandmother's house in Massachusetts.
- He announced his retirement as host of CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979), effective September, 2016. His last appearance as host on the show was September 25, 2016. In subsequent years, he did make a few short guest appearances on Sunday Morning as a musical guest, playing his signature grand piano, under his replacement as host, Jane Pauley.
- After his 22-year stint as host of CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979), he retired from hosting duties, full-time, in September 2016, at age 83.
- Before he was a successful newsanchor at CBS, he was a music disc jockey at WGMS in Washington, D.C.
- Graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951.
- Children: Kathleen (b. 1974), Winston (b. 1975), Annie (b. 1977), Emily (b. 1979), Jamie (b. 1983)
- Plays piano and 5-string banjo
- Charles Osgood was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
- The song he remembered playing was "The Happy Farmer," at a recital. He nearly forgot to perform; when he wasn't called.
- Before he was a successful newsanchor at CBS, he used to work at ABC News.
- In 1942, when Osgood was 9, his father transferred from The Bronx, New York to Baltimore, Maryland.
- Friends of: Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Andy Rooney, Harry Reasoner, Lesley Stahl, Jane Pauley, Ted Koppel, Tom Brokaw, Roger Mudd, Harry Smith, Mark McEwen, Alan Alda, Ben Stein, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Julie Chen Moonves, Bob Schieffer, Peter Jennings, Charles Gibson, John Cacavas and Jack Haley Jr..
- Best known by the public as the host of CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979).
- Met Ted Koppel at WABC in 1963, where the lifelong friendship began.
- Is the best-selling author of 7 books.
- His father was a textile salesman.
- He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts & Letters category.
- He was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts & Letters category.
- Both he and Chita Rivera were born in January 1933 and died in January 2024. Incidentally, he died on the 23rd, her final birthday.
- Before he turned 9, the Japanese took manila and unfortunately, he had to pin the Japanese fought to the big Chinese map he had tacked to his bedroom wall. [2 January 1942].
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