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Paul Harvey affiliates in your area

RadioFan2J3 said:
Perhaps a failed memory, but earlier in time, Paul Harvey was on WRDW, 1480, probably prior to the point where James Brown bought the station. I would have no idea when WBBQ picked up the rights to Paul Harvey.
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I think WBBQ picked up the ABC Contemporary network and Paul Harvey in the mid to late 70s, according to WorldRadioHistory's Broadcasting Yearbook archives
 
vchimpanzee said:
I used to get annoyed when WFMX would have NASCAR qualifying at 6:30. Paul Harvey was supposed to air then. Can't they just put him on a few minutes early? I was relieved when a nearby station started rerunning The Rest of the Story the next morning, or for the Friday broadcast, on Monday. Then I realized they had gone back to doing it on that other station at 2:55. So I tried to listen each day at that time. I wish I had stopped the car when I was so far away that if the car was moving, I couldn't hear it. It was online for a while, and then it wasn't. I wish the reruns were somewhere.
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There was a YouTube channel, called Paul Harvey Archives, that was uploading 100's & 100's of episodes of the Rest of the Story, however they seemed to have been taken down, back in January due to copyright. There is another channel, called Paul Harvey Archives Channel 2, that was created shortly after the other channel disappeared, but it doesn't have anything on it yet.
 
I know that after Paul Harvey's death, ABC tried to keep it going, does anyone recall who the replacement was? I think it may have been his son, or an ABC radio news anchor that would fill-in for Harvey on a regular basis. Trying to replace the irreplaceable with success didn't happen, as the program seemed to just disappear.
 
Paul Harvey Jr. filled in frequently when his father's health was failing. ABC News Radio anchors Gil Gross and Doug Limerick also filled in.

But once Paul had died, ABC Radio pretty quickly replaced both programs with Mike Huckabee.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I used to get annoyed when WFMX would have NASCAR qualifying at 6:30. Paul Harvey was supposed to air then. Can't they just put him on a few minutes early? I was relieved when a nearby station started rerunning The Rest of the Story the next morning, or for the Friday broadcast, on Monday. Then I realized they had gone back to doing it on that other station at 2:55. So I tried to listen each day at that time. I wish I had stopped the car when I was so far away that if the car was moving, I couldn't hear it. It was online for a while, and then it wasn't. I wish the reruns were somewhere.
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What station would re-run TROTS?
 
WAAK, an LPFM in Boynton, GA is currently airing The Rest Of The Story three times a day. Seems they might be in violation of rights to the program. I don't know of any other station airing the reruns.
 
WPRO Newstalk 630 in Providence, RI carried Paul Harvey at 8:30 AM, 12 Noon (delaying Rush Limbaugh's show until 12:30), and at 5:30 PM weekdays and around 12 Noon on Saturdays.
 
Harvey was a fixture on WBZ in Boston throughout my time there in the 1990s. As a pretty important ABC affiliate, we were called on occasionally to have our morning anchor, Gary LaPierre, fill in for Harvey.

As Gary's writer, that meant I had the privilege of writing for him on a couple of those shows - which meant that I actually got to write for Paul Harvey News and Comment, which was one of the highlights of my radio news career.

I also got to meet him twice and got mentioned on his show, but that's another story.
 
jp1996 said:
Wooooooooooow! How did they secure the rights to air those old broadcasts?
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PTBoardOp94 said:
$4.99 says they do not have such rights.
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And another $4.99 says they likely recorded the broadcasts themselves off air & kept the recording all these years

And don't forget. he was on ABC back in the 1960s so he'd have been on your local ABC affiliate back then. It wasn't until his broadcasts went into syndication that he began to bounce around the local dial around the country
 
JeeperOne said:
And don't forget. he was on ABC back in the 1960s so he'd have been on your local ABC affiliate back then. It wasn't until his broadcasts went into syndication that he began to bounce around the local dial around the country
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Paul was a lifelong ABC employee. (Literally, ABC Radio wasn’t renamed Citadel Media until right around his death.) It was the changing face of radio networks that caused Paul’s stations to change often, especially in the last decade when NBC Radio and Mutual died off and Fox News Radio emerged.
 
As a couple of other posts noted in Seattle Paul was heard on KOMO 1000 AM. Every day my dad would drive me to school on his way to work. We always listened to Paul Harvey at 8am. It was one of many small bonding experiences we shared. Paul Harvey, Casey Kasem, and Bruce Williams had a sort of presence that resonated with me even though they were many years older than I was at the time. I can't think of one radio personality today that even comes close. Doc Brown, where's my time machine.
 


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