Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973)
is an American
television host,
radio personality
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,
producer
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, and
television personality. Prior to 2003, Daly was a
VJ on
MTV's ''
Total Request Live'', and a DJ for the Southern California-based radio station
106.7 KROQ-FM. In 2002, Daly joined
NBC, where he began hosting and producing the
late night talk show
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''
Last Call with Carson Daly'', and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the
Macy's Fourth of July
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fireworks show, and executive producing ''
New Year's Eve with Carson Daly'' from
Times Square beginning in 2003.
Daly has since been involved in more prominent roles at NBC, such as becoming host for its reality music competition ''
The Voice'' in 2011, and joining NBC's morning show ''
Today'' as a
social media
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correspondent in 2013, with his role increasing in subsequent years becoming a co-host.
Daly has also worked as a radio DJ. He was formerly a nighttime host on the Los Angeles radio station
KROQ-FM and beginning in 2010, began hosting ''Mornings with Carson Daly'' on its sister station
KAMP-FM
KNX-FM (97.1 MHz, "KNX News 97.1 FM") is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs an all-news radio format in a full-time simulcast with KNX (1070 AM). The station has s ...
.
Daly also hosts a weekly top 30 countdown show ''The Daly Download with Carson Daly'' which is produced by
Audacy, Inc. (formerly
CBS Radio
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and is the parent of
KAMP-FM
KNX-FM (97.1 MHz, "KNX News 97.1 FM") is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs an all-news radio format in a full-time simulcast with KNX (1070 AM). The station has s ...
) and syndicated though
Westwood One. The program airs on Saturday and Sunday mornings in a 3-4 hour edition on CHR/hot AC radio stations.
Early life
Daly was born in
Santa Monica, California
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,
the son of
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TV personality Pattie Daly Caruso (1944-2017), and car salesman Jim "J.D." Daly. His mother is from
Fayetteville,
North Carolina
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.
His father died from bladder cancer when Carson was a child, and his mother married Richard Caruso (1932-2017).
Daly attended
Santa Monica High School and was a member of the school's golf team before graduating in 1991. He attended
Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles but dropped out to pursue a pro golf career.
He is of
Irish descent
and has worked with
Guinness on local "Proposition 3-17" to make
Saint Patrick's Day an official holiday.
Daly served as an intern to
Jimmy Kimmel in radio.
He began his radio career at
College of the Desert
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and as an intern at the former KCMJ FM (now
KKUU) under the name "Kid Carson".
Career
Daly began his broadcasting career at the radio station
KOME in
San Jose, California.
Daly was then given the 6-10 PM time slot at KOME's sister station
KROQ in Los Angeles.
It was during Daly's time at KROQ that MTV recruited Daly to serve as a VJ during MTV's summer beach house programming called "Motel California".
At the end of the summer of 1997, MTV hired Daly as a permanent VJ, a position which required Daly to relocate to New York.
Once in New York, Daly began hosting ''MTV Live''.
Daly hosted
MTV'S
''TRL'' from 1998 to 2003. TRL was based on two previous shows, "Total Request" and "MTV Live", both of which had also been hosted by Daly.
Daly's role as host of the popular live program included introducing the top 10 videos of the day and interviewing celebrity guests.
In 2002, ''
Last Call with Carson Daly'' debuted. The show was shot on the same set as ''
Saturday Night Live'' until 2005, when it moved to Los Angeles.
Beginning in 2003–2004, Daly began hosting a
New Year's Eve special for NBC, ''
New Year's Eve with Carson Daly''.
In 2011, Daly began hosting and executive-producing NBC's reality music competition ''
The Voice''. Daly's duties as host included watching blind auditions alongside contestant's family members.
As a producer of ''The Voice'', Daly has won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, first in 2013 and again from 2015, 2016, and 2017.
When social media correspondent
Christina Milian departed the show, Daly became the sole host.
Daly appeared in a brief but pivotal role in the first episode of ''
My Name Is Earl''. While in the hospital after being hit by a car, Earl learns about karma from watching an episode of ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' where Daly claims that his success is a direct result of doing good things for other people. Earl is thus inspired by Carson Daly to turn his own life around, and sets out to make up for his many past wrongs.
Daly had a small role on
Dave Chappelle's show ''
Chappelle's Show''.
In September 2013, Daly became the orange room anchor (social media reporter) on the ''
Today'' show, as well as serving as a fill-in anchor for
Willie Geist and the show's weekend edition (''Weekend Today'').
Daly is a founding partner, along with Jonathan Rifkind, Jonathan B. Davis, and Bam Margera, of an
independent record label, 456 Enterprise & Entertainment, which released the "
Viva La Bands
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A second volume, '' Viva La Bands, Volume ...
" compilations.
Personal life
Carson Daly resides in the
Village of Flower Hill, in
New York.
In March 2000,
Tara Reid met Daly on the set of ''
Total Request Live'', and they began dating.
They shared an apartment in
New York City
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and Daly proposed on October 29.
In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement.
Daly became engaged to Siri Pinter, a food blogger,
in 2013.
Her father is actor
Mark Pinter. The couple married on December 23, 2015
and have four children.
Daly is
Catholic
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.
Daly has opened up about his struggle with
generalized anxiety disorder and
panic disorder
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.
Radio shows
* ''Most Requested'', syndicated daily show (2001-2006)
* ''Mornings with Carson Daly'',
KAMP-FM
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,
Los Angeles
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(2010—2017)
* ''The Daly Download with Carson Daly'', syndicated (2013— )
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Filmography
References
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1973 births
American radio DJs
American television talk show hosts
Late night television talk show hosts
Living people
Loyola Marymount University alumni
Participants in American reality television series
People from Santa Monica, California
VJs (media personalities)
Catholics from California
Flower Hill, New York
American people of Irish descent
List of people with an anxiety disorder