Paul Harvey 1918-2009

[calguy]

All Access, ABC News and Don Barrett report the passing of radio legend Paul Harvey today at the age of 90. More details or should I say "the rest of the story" are I'm sure on the way.

 

[iused2bsomebody]

Good Day, RIP!

 

[2wicky]

RIP, he was an excellent broadcaster......

 

[Rebafan]

His death came nine months after his wife, Lynne Cooper Harvey... also known as Angel because that is what he called her on the air and in life since they married died from leukemia.
She was his business partner and the first producer ever inducted in the the Radio Hall of Fame.

He just went to join her so they could be together forever... This is VERY sad, He will be greatly missed. He lived a GREAT life, he lived until 90 which is GREAT... still some you wish could live forever.

 

[iused2bsomebody]

Amen

 

[radioman148]

What station was Paul Harvey most recently carried on in LA?
In Chicago it was WGN not former ABC WLS.

 

[Big E]

KABC has been carrying Harvey's Rest Of the Story, and News and Comment for a long time. I wonder if Harvey Jr will keep it the show going, although I would'nt want to try to follow Paul Harvey, talk about a legend in radio. Paul Harvey............RIP!

 

[radioman148]

I was wondering if KABC was still carrying it as some other ABC stations weren't.

 

[Big E]

I heard a tribute show this morning, and nothing was said of the shows future.

 

[BC_714]

A radio icon! May he rest in peace.

 

[nmoore6676]

Truly the last of the distinctive voices which were at one time the norm in broadcasting. I am old enough to recall Gabriel Heater, H.V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson. On to TV with John Cameron Swazee, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

He will truly be missed and American Broadcasting is a little less interesting for his passing. More importantly we have lost a time when we believed in the integrity of those whose voices (and faces) came into our homes.

 

[radioman148]

Truly the last of the distinctive voices which were at one time the norm in broadcasting. I am old enough to recall Gabriel Heater, H.V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson. On to TV with John Cameron Swazee, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

He will truly be missed and American Broadcasting is a little less interesting for his passing. More importantly we have lost a time when we believed in the integrity of those whose voices (and faces) came into our homes.

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Very well said. Those voices all belonged to people we could believe in.

 

[LKellerIII]

Truly the last of the distinctive voices which were at one time the norm in broadcasting. I am old enough to recall Gabriel Heater, H.V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson. On to TV with John Cameron Swazee, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

He will truly be missed and American Broadcasting is a little less interesting for his passing. More importantly we have lost a time when we believed in the integrity of those whose voices (and faces) came into our homes.

Thank God somebody posting here is older than me. I don't remember Kaltenborn, and I only remember John Cameron Swayzee from the Timex watch commercials ("Keeps a licking, but keeps on ticking...")


My mother liked Lowell Thomas on CBS, and I also remember Alex Dreier on ABC - who also anchored news at KTTV for a couple of years.

I've heard recordings of Walter Winchell - His into: “Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”

If you remember the late great Jim Healy, he based the format of his sports reports on Winchell's delivery.

 

[radioman148]

Truly the last of the distinctive voices which were at one time the norm in broadcasting. I am old enough to recall Gabriel Heater, H.V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson. On to TV with John Cameron Swazee, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

He will truly be missed and American Broadcasting is a little less interesting for his passing. More importantly we have lost a time when we believed in the integrity of those whose voices (and faces) came into our homes.

Thank God somebody posting here is older than me. I don't remember Kaltenborn, and I only remember John Cameron Swayzee from the "Timex watch commercials ("Keeps a licking, but keeps on ticking...")


My mother liked Lowell Thomas on CBS, and I also remember Alex Dreier on ABC - who also anchored news at KTTV for a couple of years.

I've heard recordings of Walter Winchell - His into: “Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”

If you remember the late great Jim Healy, he based the format of his sports reports on Winchell's delivery.

"Lowell Thomas says so long until tomorrow. This program came to you from New York"

 

[accessdlp]

There is good news. ABC will continue the news/comment format with Gil Gross (ex-KLAC/now-KGO/SF).

No, he is not Mr. Harvey and he admits it, but if you have heard Gil on the radio, I know that ABC could not have picked a better man to sit in that chair.

 

[radioman148]

Gil is an excellent choice. I remember when he first worked in Chicago at WLS and you knew then he would be good and he always has been.

 

[MusicMaestro]

Truly the last of the distinctive voices which were at one time the norm in broadcasting. I am old enough to recall Gabriel Heater, H.V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson. On to TV with John Cameron Swazee, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

He will truly be missed and American Broadcasting is a little less interesting for his passing. More importantly we have lost a time when we believed in the integrity of those whose voices (and faces) came into our homes.

Thank God somebody posting here is older than me. I don't remember Kaltenborn, and I only remember John Cameron Swayzee from the Timex watch commercials ("Keeps a licking, but keeps on ticking...")


My mother liked Lowell Thomas on CBS, and I also remember Alex Dreier on ABC - who also anchored news at KTTV for a couple of years.

I've heard recordings of Walter Winchell - His into: “Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”

If you remember the late great Jim Healy, he based the format of his sports reports on Winchell's delivery.

Yes, there are many of us who remember the late, great Jim Healy, & he was a giant not only in Southern California, but he was well known nationally,as well.

Mr. Harvey will be sorely missed, as his distinctive voice was a welcome change from the cookie-cutter news anchors of the last 25 years or so--he could add commentary without talking down to the audience, something many current news personalities lack. His impact will be lasting.