Paul Harvey Dies at Age 90
Good Day, Mr. Harvey
Mr. Harvey was born in 1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began his radio career in Tulsa at the tender young age of 14 on Tulsa's KVOO-AM, where he read news stories and local announcements, in addition to the odd janitorial job. Mr. Harvey began his radio show as we know it in 1951, from studios in Chicago. The show is carried on more than 1,100 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Radio Network stations. Mr. Harvey's show is estimated to have 18 to 22 million regular listeners, who tuned in twice daily to hear Mr. Harvey's familiar "Stand by for news." In the last few years, due to Mr. Harvey's declining health, Paul Harvey, Jr. had been helping with the news broadcasts.
According to USAToday, "When Harvey was 81 in 2000, his sole employer for all those years, ABC Radio Networks, signed him to a 10-year, $100 million contract. Rivals who had lost in the bidding told him they'd be back in 2010." Paul Harvey was a radio pioneer, and possibly the most-recognized radio personality of all time.
Mr. Harvey was known for his conservative views and colloquial manner of speaking. USAToday stated today that "The conservative label attached itself to Harvey, a God-and country advocate who called welfare recipients "pusillanimous parasites." In a statement, Paul Harvey, Jr. said that "My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news. So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend."
President George W. Bush awarded Harvey the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. Mr. Harvey was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and, in 1992, received the Paul White Award, the highest honor presented by RTNDA, the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
Paul Harvey was an icon of radio, and will not be forgotten. "This is Paul Harvey...Good Day."
Some information for this article obtained from www.usatoday.com, and www.cbs2.com
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6 Comments
Post a CommentI would always listen to the rest of the story. One was when he informed people that the top 40 money people of the U.S. have an amount of money equal to everyone else in the U.S. put together! He was another Ripley!
I loved Paul Harvey - he will be missed by a lot of people, I'm sure.
Very sad, very well written article.
Thanks, guys. I will definitely miss him, and I know many others will, too. So sad. This is the 4th death I've dealt with this week of people who I was close to, or who mean a lot to me. I'm ready for some happier times.
I hate to hear about Paul Harvey's death. I loved those "The rest of the story" bits. He had some interesting stuff in those.
Oh my, My dad will be upset when he hears about this. I remember when I was little he would listen to Paul Harvey on the radio every time we went somewhere. He loved his radio broadcast and I liked it too. Thanks for the report.