Paul Harvey affiliates in your area

[Dondd]

PH was a very popular show.
Once worked as news director (1 person news staff) for a new country FM in northwest Oklahoma.
One day, the station got a call from ABC Radio inquiring if we would be interested in running the show. The network would prefer a powerful 100kw FM that got to 3 states.

The owner said he would be interested, but that PH was already running on the local AM station.

That was news to ABC, as the station was "off the books" running the show. When PH moved to the new station, the other station, in a case of sour "illegal" or unethical grapes, told people the new station "stole" it from them.

Wonders if such things happened at other stations, stations "unofficially" airing network programming.

 

[615 FM]

WTCR-FM Catlettsburg, Kentucky (now Huntington, West Virginia)

 

[vchimpanzee]

That was news to ABC, as the station was "off the books" running the show. When PH moved to the new station, the other station, in a case of sour "illegal" or unethical grapes, told people the new station "stole" it from them.

I was having trouble hearing Paul Harvey 30 miles away from the station where I was listening to it. I called a local station and asked if they were interested. I forget who but someone told me the other station had exclusive rights to it in the area. But if the signal was that bad 30 miles away, it seems to me that shouldn't have been a problem. I think by this time the big FM that had been airing the show stopped doing it, but obviously the smaller station was not exclusive.

I forget what my solution was but getting away from power lines helped. I think one reason I couldn't listen was what I said in the Saving AM Radio thread.

 

[Dondd]

Huckabee's show continued until he ran for president and it wouldn't have been ethical for him to do his show while he was a candidate. I think the show ended in 2014 and he sent people to his web site, where for a subscription fee they could continue to hear his commentaries. Supposedly he was paying for his campaign that way. I'm, not accusing him of anything if I'm wrong.

Huckabee had to flee to TBN... Trinity Broadcasting Network.
I won't say his radio or TV shows were bad, but... look where he went.

Like Michael Reagan, who also had a good national show. Next thing you know, he's on Family Life Radio...

 

[Dondd]

Doug Limerick too. I remember him because he was a local news personality in both markets where I live.

Gil Gross. I think the show was gone in a few weeks.

Both were good and added things to radio.
I loved Gil Gross' evening talk show. It wasn't politics based.

If there were "competitions" between talk radio hosts, hosts like Gross, Michael Jackson, Bruce Williams and Art Bell would run circles around the narrow-minded jaw-boning "the DEMS ARE ALWAYS WRONG!!" hosts of today. Even in those great hosts' deaths...

 

[Dondd]

I still want to hear Tinker to Evers to Chance. Those were the only words I heard one day. I hadn't yet realized I could stop the car away from power lines and listen.

When I first read your post, wasn't sure what that was, though it had some kind of familiar ring to it.
Looked it up.

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon immortalized a historic infield | Baseball Hall of Fame

Imagine Paul also recited the baseball poem that goes back to the early 1900s.

 

[radiofan2023]

Both were good and added things to radio.
I loved Gil Gross' evening talk show. It wasn't politics based.

If there were "competitions" between talk radio hosts, hosts like Gross, Michael Jackson, Bruce Williams and Art Bell would run circles around the narrow-minded jaw-boning "the DEMS ARE ALWAYS WRONG!!" hosts of today. Even in those great hosts' deaths...

I listened to Gil Gross when he had a show on KKSF, it wasn't as good as it could have been, because he never took callers. The most entertaining part was when Lloyd Lindsay Young would do weather, if that tells you anything.

 

[secondchoice]

WKDF carried PH for years, though I think WSM 650 did for a time after they picked up ABC. I know Paul's last home in Nashville was 100KW WWTN. I believe KDF was the Nashville affiliate for the ABC Rock network

IIRC WSIX FM in the early to mid 1970's had Paul Harvey. Back when they were some kind "light country/AC". I believe they and Channel 8 (later swapped with the PBS station for Channel 2) were owned by GE at the time.

 

[Dondd]

I listened to Gil Gross when he had a show on KKSF, it wasn't as good as it could have been, because he never took callers.

His national show, the one that aired in the mid-1990s, took calls. I know because I called once and listened when I was in a market that carried him.

 

[Dondd]

Here's a good "behind the scenes" look at PH outside of his broadcasts. Good interviews.
Am assuming this was recorded in the 1990s.

There's also a great Larry King interview of PH.

Larry King was invited to sit-in for Paul for a week, when Paul underwent a medical procedure (for his voice), but was unable to, due to scheduling conflicts.

 

[formerradio]

Gil Gross. I think the show was gone in a few weeks.

Even though Paul Harvey was "based" in Chicago. Sales were handled out of the ABC Radio Networks building on Montfort in Dallas. My office was next to the director of sales at the time. And there were three or four network sales people there on the third floor. After Paul Harvey passed away advertisers were not the least bit interested in the replacement shows. So the show was quickly dropped. Quick story. Way back on Harvey, one of the big advertisers was David Oreck and his vacuum cleaners. They bought a lot of time on the networks. David flew to Dallas one day for meeting with the ABC sales team. Something happened with the car service that was to meet and pick up Mr. Oreck at DFW. The sales director was fit to be tied. He gave a good example of how the first thing you do is fix the blame, then and only then do you fix the problem.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

I was a fan and often listened to "Paul Harvey News and Comment" long before setting foot inside a studio myself.

My two stories about Paul Harvey are: first I was on a station that dropped ABC and went with AP Audio so they could sell the avails they had to clear for the network. I happened to be working mid days when the change happened and we received lots of frantic calls from fans worried about Mr. Harvey. Many asked, "is he okay?"

My second story is many miles from the one above. I would occasionally fill in mid-days at one the last AM-FM-TV company headquarters. There was a cafeteria downstairs and once I went to Paul Harvey I could go get lunch (with transistor radio in hand) and get back in plenty of time to hear Mr. Harvey as I enjoyed my meal all while getting paid for it.

 

[GA-SC-NC-TN radioguy]

WMGA 1130- Moultrie, Ga, the 10,000 watt Big Voice in Deep Dixie; WSIZ 1380-Ocilla, Ga and WALG 1590-Albany, Ga. WMAZ 940-Macon, Ga ended their CBS affiliation, in place since mid 1930s, CBS paying $38,000 annually to station for ABC to get PH in the mid 1980s. WSB 750- Atlanta dropped their NBC affiliation, in place since late 1920s, to pickup PH early to mid 80s. It didn’t last but a few months.

 

[tylerSC]

I believe Paul Harvey was carried on 11.10-WBT in Charlotte back in the 80's. Before they became a full blown news/talk format. Not sure if he was dropped after they added Rush.

 

[firepoint525]

PH was a very popular show.
Once worked as news director (1 person news staff) for a new country FM in northwest Oklahoma.
One day, the station got a call from ABC Radio inquiring if we would be interested in running the show. The network would prefer a powerful 100kw FM that got to 3 states.
The owner said he would be interested, but that PH was already running on the local AM station.

I was aware of both an AM and an FM station near me at the time (not jointly owned) both carrying Harvey. I remember this because I listened to the reair on the FM station to hear a story again that I had heard an hour earlier on the AM station.

Years later, I was working at the now long-departed WDXN in Clarksville, TN, when the then P.D. (a real airhead!) told me that she had missed the feed of "The Rest of the Story," but that I could catch it again at 3:00 p.m. as she told me that she had done when she had lived in New York. Only one catch: that was 3:00 p.m. EASTERN time! I was never aware of a feed at 3:00 p.m. central time. But I knew that the FM station in nearby Hopkinsville also carried him. So I called them and asked when they carried him. Fortunately, it was before we aired it, so I recorded it directly off the air on a boombox that we had at the time! I just had to make sure that THEIR commercials didn't go over OUR airwaves! And since it was sponsored locally, I HAD to have it! Because of the shortness of time, I didn't get to air his usual intro ("...in a minute, you're going to hear the rest of the story..."), so I live-introed it myself, mentioned the sponsor, then played their spot. The P.D. and the G.M. were also doing a live remote that day, so I KNOW that they heard it! And I made it a point to mention to them that it had aired properly that day!

 

[gr8oldies]

I was aware of both an AM and an FM station near me at the time (not jointly owned) both carrying Harvey. I remember this because I listened to the reair on the FM station to hear a story again that I had heard an hour earlier on the AM station.

Years later, I was working at the now long-departed WDXN in Clarksville, TN, when the then P.D. (a real airhead!) told me that she had missed the feed of "The Rest of the Story," but that I could catch it again at 3:00 p.m. as she told me that she had done when she had lived in New York. Only one catch: that was 3:00 p.m. EASTERN time! I was never aware of a feed at 3:00 p.m. central time. But I knew that the FM station in nearby Hopkinsville also carried him. So I called them and asked when they carried him. Fortunately, it was before we aired it, so I recorded it directly off the air on a boombox that we had at the time! I just had to make sure that THEIR commercials didn't go over OUR airwaves! And since it was sponsored locally, I HAD to have it! Because of the shortness of time, I didn't get to air his usual intro ("...in a minute, you're going to hear the rest of the story..."), so I live-introed it myself, mentioned the sponsor, then played their spot. The P.D. and the G.M. were also doing a live remote that day, so I KNOW that they heard it! And I made it a point to mention to them that it had aired properly that day!

In the late 70s/early 80s, a station I worked at carried Paul Harvey's 3 programs including The Rest of the Story. The first feed was 3:06pm Eastern, and that's the one we recorded for the 5pm hour (we had a news/closing farm markets block). As sometimes happens, feeds get missed but there was a refeed, sometime in the 5pm hour and if we missed it, we'd record that one, and we ended up with a stash of backup shows.

 

[firepoint525]

In the late 70s/early 80s, a station I worked at carried Paul Harvey's 3 programs including The Rest of the Story. The first feed was 3:06pm Eastern, and that's the one we recorded for the 5pm hour (we had a news/closing farm markets block). As sometimes happens, feeds get missed but there was a refeed, sometime in the 5pm hour and if we missed it, we'd record that one, and we ended up with a stash of backup shows.

Trying to remember now, but it seemed like our "Rest of the Story" aired during the 5:00 p.m. central time hour. I was never aware (at that time) of any later feed after that 2:05 central time feed. We probably should have saved some backlog shows, but if we ever did, I was not made aware of it. (The Hopkinsville station aired theirs sometime around 4:50-4:55 p.m., so I didn't have much turnaround before I had to air ours.)

 

[GuyfromYTown]

*WKBN AM 570 in Youngstown, OH aired Paul Harvey at 8:30, 11:45, and TROTS at 6.
*Meanwhile, WTAM AM 1100 in Cleveland aired PH at 8:30 and 11:45, with TROTS at 3:06.

 

[vchimpanzee]

In the late 70s/early 80s, a station I worked at carried Paul Harvey's 3 programs including The Rest of the Story. The first feed was 3:06pm Eastern, and that's the one we recorded for the 5pm hour (we had a news/closing farm markets block). As sometimes happens, feeds get missed but there was a refeed, sometime in the 5pm hour and if we missed it, we'd record that one, and we ended up with a stash of backup shows.

My station had it just before 3. Amazingly, it aired on 9-11. There was continuous news that day so I don't know how.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Trying to remember now, but it seemed like our "Rest of the Story" aired during the 5:00 p.m. central time hour. I was never aware (at that time) of any later feed after that 2:05 central time feed. We probably should have saved some backlog shows, but if we ever did, I was not made aware of it. (The Hopkinsville station aired theirs sometime around 4:50-4:55 p.m., so I didn't have much turnaround before I had to air ours.)

One station where I live aired it at 6:30. They made me mad starting race coverage at 6:30 without finding a way to do Harvey a few minutes early. I don't know when I discovered that the other station did it at 3.