Entertainment TV Geraldo Rivera Celebrates 50 Years in Television: See His Life and Career Throughout the Years On Sept. 8, the Emmy and Peabody award- winning Fox News correspondent will celebrate 50 years in television: "I'm honored, I'm humbled by it. It exhilarates me and exhausts me," he tells PEOPLE. To celebrate this monumental year, FOX News Channel will air the one-hour special FOX Nation Presents: I Am Geraldo 50 Years on Sunday, Sept. 6, at 10 p.m. ET. By Natalie Stone Published on September 3, 2020 03:18 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Benjamin West 01 of 22 1970s FOX News Channel Promotional photo of Rivera from the 1970s. 02 of 22 1972 FOX News Channel Rivera speaking with high school students in the WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News newsroom in 1972. 03 of 22 1974 FOX News Channel Rivera working in the basement office at WABC radio in 1974. Shortly after the Willowbrook exposé, he moved to the basement and started the Channel 7 Help Center, his own investigative news team where he launched a series of explosive reports, including the series on the institution which resulted in its closure. 04 of 22 1974 Geraldo Rivera alongside the late Hugh Hefner for Good Night America in 1974. FOX News Channel Rivera alongside the late Hugh Hefner for Good Night America on May 1, 1974. 05 of 22 1974 FOX News Channel A New York Post clip (dated April 3, 1974) of when ABC tried to stop Rivera's segment on marijuana by censoring it. 06 of 22 1974 FOX News Channel Rivera and a member of his team with Jerry Garcia on Sept. 12, 1974. 07 of 22 1980 Geraldo Rivera writing John Lennon’s obituary for ABC Nightline in 1980. FOX News Channel Rivera writing John Lennon's obituary for ABC Nightline. 08 of 22 1980 FOX News Channel Rivera holding a John Lennon LP outside The Dakota, where Lennon was murdered. Rivera lived only a few blocks away. The day Lennon died, on Dec. 8, 1980, Rivera reported on the death of the Beatles frontman on ABC News with Ted Kopple. 09 of 22 1983 FOX News Channel Image (dated March 24, 1983) from a 20/20 investigative report on migrant farm workers. 10 of 22 1988 Geraldo Rivera's 1988 Playgirl cover. Playgirl "Well, I didn't look that bad. I mean, the Playgirl cover you can forgive because it was so long ago and that was when there was still a Playboy mansion and Playgirl was the hot magazine for gay guys or women. But that was that era," Rivera tells PEOPLE of his 1988 cover. Asked whether he'd do pose again if the magazine was still in publication, Rivera said, "I hesitate because I would say yes, but my wife would say a resounding no; so would my daughters. So the answer is no I would not." 11 of 22 1988 Geraldo Rivera alongside Bernard Carabello (in 1988), a former resident of the infamous Willowbrook State School who spent 18 years institutionalized, although he was not mentally impaired. Carabello was released from Willowbrook following Rivera’s exposé of the institution’s practices. FOX News Channel Rivera alongside Bernard Carabello, a former resident of the infamous Willowbrook State School who spent 18 years institutionalized, although he was not mentally impaired. Carabello was released from Willowbrook following Rivera's exposé of the institution's practices. 12 of 22 2001 FOX News Channel Rivera next to a helicopter in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, in November 2001. 13 of 22 2001 FOX News Channel Rivera in Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001. 14 of 22 2002 FOX News Channel Rivera with Somali militia in Mogadishu in 2002. 15 of 22 2003 FOX News Channel Rivera piled into a Black Hawk helicopter flying through Iraq in March 2003. 16 of 22 2003 FOX News Channel Rivera on a DEA jet in Colombia while he was covering Plan Colombia in July 2003. 17 of 22 2007 FOX News Channel Rivera alongside former CIA Director General David Petraeus in Baghdad in 2007. 18 of 22 2008 FOX News Channel Rivera standing alongside soldiers outside the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan in 2008. 19 of 22 2015 Geraldo Rivera, his wife Erica Levy, and their daughter Sol at Levy’s 40th birthday party in NYC in 2015. FOX News Channel Rivera, his wife Erica, and their daughter Sol at Erica's 40th birthday party in NYC on Jan. 20, 2015. They reside in Cleveland, Ohio. 20 of 22 His Children Geraldo Rivera's children (L to R): daughter-in-law Deborah, son Cruz, daughter Isabella, daughter Sol, daughter Simone and son Gabriel, husband of Deborah. FOX News Channel Rivera's children from left to right: daughter-in-law Deborah, son Cruz, daughter Isabella, daughter Sol, daughter Simone and son Gabriel, husband of Deborah. 21 of 22 2020 FOX News Channel Rivera at work in his office. 22 of 22 2020 Benjamin West Rivera reporting for FOX News Channel, where he serves as a roaming correspondent-at-large.