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Life After Paul Harvey

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It's been a week now since we've heard the sad news that Paul Harvey had passed away. And now a week later, he's laid to rest. I know he will be missed by the world. I've been listening to him myself on the radio since 1974. The question now is will the daily News and Commentary he stated in 1951 and the Rest Of Story (started in 1976) continued? Or will they will pass away too?
 
That feature was only good because of how he did it. You cannot replace that. Doing so would be tacky, not to mention lame.
 
As I have mentioned in prior posts, I believe the time has come to pull the franchise as a tribute to Paul Harvey, that is unless ABC persuades his son to take over. Otherwise, it's over. Most large market stations dropped him years ago.
 
Yes, when I came to Atlanta in 2004, WGST-AM 640 used to carried Paul Harvey News & The Rest Of The Story. A year later the station switched from ABC to Fox and they
were dropped from the Atlanta market.
 
Grapevine says that PH Jr. will likely carry on the legacy with "The Rest Of The Story" and his own version of the news, but on which network is the question? Word is that he is not under contract to ABC.
 
Gil Gross is doing a nice job with the "News and Comment". The tribute week was very well done. I hope Paul Jr. will continue the "Rest of the Story" stories. They are really entertaining.
 
Gil does a fine job with the News and Comment segments...he's always been a great sub for Paul Harvey. I'm sure Doug is doing great, as well.

But don't expect this to last permanently. Gil and Doug are just keeping the segments going until it shuts down.

If Paul Harvey News weren't (eventually) being laid to rest like Mr. Harvey was himself, then Citadel wouldn't have pulled the noon segments immediately on WABC/NYC and WJR/Detroit...which they did this week. (The incumbent midday shows expanded to noon in each case.)
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
If Paul Harvey News weren't (eventually) being laid to rest like Mr. Harvey was himself, then Citadel wouldn't have pulled the noon segments immediately on WABC/NYC and WJR/Detroit...which they did this week. (The incumbent midday shows expanded to noon in each case.)
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Hadn't heard about that, and its sad, cause I was very pleased with the work. WJR itself had a great sub for Harvey in Paul W. Smith.
 
Here's why I believe they kept the "News and Comment" and Doug Limerick's replacement for "The Rest of the Story" going: they have to have a slot for the annual "What is a father", etc., and Christmas broadcasts.

I was hoping Mr. Limerick would merely introduce classic "Rest of the Story" stories. What would be so wrong with doing reruns? I missed a number of those over the years (mostly because I was out of range of a station broadcasting the show at the time, or because the person taping it for my usual station messed up, or because I simply forgot, or because the signal at 7:30 A.M. was terrible) and tried to persuade the people in charge of his web site to run them online. Or at least keep that list of missed broadcasts I sent them and turn it into a tape we could buy. They used to sell the tapes.

It's not right that we can't hear these. I'm sure lots of people will complain.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Here's why I believe they kept the "News and Comment" and Doug Limerick's replacement for "The Rest of the Story" going: they have to have a slot for the annual "What is a father", etc., and Christmas broadcasts.

I was hoping Mr. Limerick would merely introduce classic "Rest of the Story" stories. What would be so wrong with doing reruns? I missed a number of those over the years (mostly because I was out of range of a station broadcasting the show at the time, or because the person taping it for my usual station messed up, or because I simply forgot, or because the signal at 7:30 A.M. was terrible) and tried to persuade the people in charge of his web site to run them online. Or at least keep that list of missed broadcasts I sent them and turn it into a tape we could buy. They used to sell the tapes.

It's not right that we can't hear these. I'm sure lots of people will complain.
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I too would love to hear these again. I was 9 when they started, (I'm 42 now!) and didn't listen the first decade or so. They are a great lesson in history.
 
I've only attempted to listen daily for about 10 years, so I've really missed a lot of them.

I should have bought the tapes back when they were advertised.
 
That's one reason they didn't offer the "Rest of the Story" on the PH website. It's a money maker...they've sold books based on it, you know.

I'm wondering if PH Jr. returns at some point, doing 'ROTS" only. He supposedly has input into what happens next, per a New York newspaper article a ways back. I can see the younger Harvey approving the Gil/Doug temporary substitution plan, as it would be the least disruptive option for his father's regular listeners.

I don't see Jr. returning to do the regular "News and Comment". He'd have to get back into the saddle like his father did, and not pre-tape the morning feed with non-newsy/science/etc. topics as he did the past year or so...stations won't carry that.

And even if he did the regular "News and Comment" routine, it's an open question if stations would keep the segment without his father.

I can see ABC Radio offering the younger Harvey doing "ROTS", though. He wrote and did it for a number of years.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
I don't see Jr. returning to do the regular "News and Comment". He'd have to get back into the saddle like his father did, and not pre-tape the morning feed with non-newsy/science/etc. topics as he did the past year or so...stations won't carry that.

And even if he did the regular "News and Comment" routine, it's an open question if stations would keep the segment without his father.
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I was so disappointed when I heard Paul Jr. doing one of those pre-recorded generic shows, but then I got to thinking maybe he had to prerecord the shows cause he was caring for his dad. I'm not going to fault a man for living up to his family obligations.
 
KyDXIn said:
I was so disappointed when I heard Paul Jr. doing one of those pre-recorded generic shows, but then I got to thinking maybe he had to prerecord the shows cause he was caring for his dad. I'm not going to fault a man for living up to his family obligations.
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Oh, and neither am I. I'm just pointing out that if Paul Jr. DOES return to that slot down the road, if he's even interested in doing it, it'd have to be the traditional newsy format that his father did.

And then, stations and listeners are going to have to figure out if hearing Paul's son do the broadcasts is what they want.

I think there's a chance Paul Jr. restarts "ROTS", if he's interested in doing so, but I wouldn't go to the window betting on him doing "News and Comment"...and I still think that part of the PH franchise ends gracefully after a certain period of Gil filling in.
 
So does this mean the Paul Harvey Jr. & the "Rest Of The Story" could show up on another network? Premier? WW1? TRN?
Wonder who would win the affiliates if they went head to head? A radio cage match maybe?
 
I heard Huckabee this morning. I think I prefer the old News and Comment format to Huckabee's ranting about one topic. But Doug does the old format well.

I still want to hear the old Rest of the Story stories. Or read them.
 
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