In 2022, Bill Geddie opened up about his 27 years of working with Barbara Walters, which aside from launching "The View" together also included a 25-year partnership in BarWall Productions for ABC News. "Barbara's total impact on broadcasting is hard to quantify, but this much is clear — she kicked sexism and ageism squarely in the ass," he told People. When he began producing her "Barbara Walters Specials" on ABC, she defied the odds of both sexism and ageism. "I was told by several male TV execs not to get too comfortable. 'You'll only have the job a few years,' one of them said. 'No one wants to see a woman over age 60 on TV,'" Geddie explained.
Barbara Walters died in December 2022 at the age of 93. She still made television appearances even in her 80s before retiring in 2015. Upon her retirement, Geddie told KESQ News Channel 3 that his time with Walters was "absolutely amazing." He went on to call Walters "the best in the business."
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