Had the honor of putting on "The Rest of the Story" every day at 5:20 pm when I was board-opping the automation on WCOS-FM in SC.
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Paul Harvey affiliates in your area
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WCOS! Would listen to it as a kid going with friends on Christmas-tree hauling/selling trips.
When did WCOS carry PH?
I was there in the late 90s
Paul was on KOMO 1000 in Seattle forever.
Early 80s in Walla Walla WA we had him on our 1kW flamethrower AM 1320. Had the great calls of KHIT but our owner sold them for 40K to a Seattle outfit and we became KAFR. Owner said that Paul was the only reason to keep that AM going and I believe him. Otherwise automated classic country. If I recollect correctly we had a short morning feature with him at 8AM PST, the noon big show, and The Rest of the Story at 5pm.
When Paul died so did that station. Now programs religious talk under different ownership.
Early 80s in Walla Walla WA we had him on our 1kW flamethrower AM 1320. Had the great calls of KHIT but our owner sold them for 40K to a Seattle outfit and we became KAFR. Owner said that Paul was the only reason to keep that AM going and I believe him. Otherwise automated classic country. If I recollect correctly we had a short morning feature with him at 8AM PST, the noon big show, and The Rest of the Story at 5pm.
When Paul died so did that station. Now programs religious talk under different ownership.
WOWO got CBS from WGL in the late 90s, IIRC. WGL flipped to CNN, WQHK 1380 had ABC/I
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
Places I have known:
San Francisco - KGO, of course.
Columbia, Mo. - KFRU (our owner had worked at KXOK in St. Louis, as had Paul Aurandt), pretty much for the whole run. We were a legacy ABC affiliate and had our pick of programming from the four networks. News was from ABC/I.
Kansas City - now this gets interesting. Clearance bounced around a lot. The following is what I've been able to piece together from Kansas City Star radio listings:
Until 1955 - KCMO (810). Then KMBC (980) and KCMO swapped CBS and ABC affiliations, respectively, as did their TV stations.
From 1955 until 1961 - KMBC
From 1961 (November 13 to be specific) through 1963 - KBEA (1480) and KBEY-FM (104.3)
From 1964 through 1968 - KUDL (1380)
From 1969 through 1970 and part of 1974 - WDAF (610)
From 1971 through 1979 - KCMO (810), which changed network affiliations from CBS to ABC in 1971
After 1979 - WDAF again.
St. Louis - this is harder to track down, but he bounced around a lot there, too. The following isn't a complete list. On KXOK until 1955, then WEW (770), then WIL (1430), then back to KXOK briefly. Relatively stable from 1958 to 1964 on East St. Louis station WAMV (later WBBR, 1490). Later in 1964, moved to WBBY (590), also on the Illinois side. Back to WIL (1430) in 1969, staying there for several years, though apparently with breaks. For example, in 1975, some of his commentaries were being carried on noncommercial KWMU-FM. By 1981, he was on a successor to WBBY, WRTH (590), then back on WIL until it dropped all local programming in 1985. After a pause of several months, KUSA (550) picked him up and by 1998 he was still on KUSA's successor, KTRS. However, there may have been a period in the early 1990s when he wasn't on 550, when it reverted to the KSD call letters for a while.
San Francisco - KGO, of course.
Columbia, Mo. - KFRU (our owner had worked at KXOK in St. Louis, as had Paul Aurandt), pretty much for the whole run. We were a legacy ABC affiliate and had our pick of programming from the four networks. News was from ABC/I.
Kansas City - now this gets interesting. Clearance bounced around a lot. The following is what I've been able to piece together from Kansas City Star radio listings:
Until 1955 - KCMO (810). Then KMBC (980) and KCMO swapped CBS and ABC affiliations, respectively, as did their TV stations.
From 1955 until 1961 - KMBC
From 1961 (November 13 to be specific) through 1963 - KBEA (1480) and KBEY-FM (104.3)
From 1964 through 1968 - KUDL (1380)
From 1969 through 1970 and part of 1974 - WDAF (610)
From 1971 through 1979 - KCMO (810), which changed network affiliations from CBS to ABC in 1971
After 1979 - WDAF again.
St. Louis - this is harder to track down, but he bounced around a lot there, too. The following isn't a complete list. On KXOK until 1955, then WEW (770), then WIL (1430), then back to KXOK briefly. Relatively stable from 1958 to 1964 on East St. Louis station WAMV (later WBBR, 1490). Later in 1964, moved to WBBY (590), also on the Illinois side. Back to WIL (1430) in 1969, staying there for several years, though apparently with breaks. For example, in 1975, some of his commentaries were being carried on noncommercial KWMU-FM. By 1981, he was on a successor to WBBY, WRTH (590), then back on WIL until it dropped all local programming in 1985. After a pause of several months, KUSA (550) picked him up and by 1998 he was still on KUSA's successor, KTRS. However, there may have been a period in the early 1990s when he wasn't on 550, when it reverted to the KSD call letters for a while.
Interesting stuff! KFRU there in Columbia and KLIK in Jefferson City were the anchors for PH in central MO......I think KLIK was an ABC/C affiliate. Never realized Paul jumped around so much in KCMO and STL. I wonder who picked up Paul in Kansas City after WDAF flipped formats. KMBZ, maybe?
I believe KSKO McGrath, Alaska may have carried it in the early 80s when the station first launched
Chicago: WLS (890), the ABC O-and-O, until it wasn't, and then WGN (720) took Paul on. PH also ran on nearby suburban ABC affiliates, including WJOL (1340) Joliet.
I was amazed to find out I was mentioned by Paul on a "Rest of the Story" referring to a story I wrote for a golf magazine (Paul was a golf nut). I didn't hear it but my mom did. I couldn't contact anyone to get a recording, then discovered his engineer also worked sports events I covered, and he got me a copy.
And that's the rest of my story.
Good day!
I was amazed to find out I was mentioned by Paul on a "Rest of the Story" referring to a story I wrote for a golf magazine (Paul was a golf nut). I didn't hear it but my mom did. I couldn't contact anyone to get a recording, then discovered his engineer also worked sports events I covered, and he got me a copy.
And that's the rest of my story.
Good day!
KLIK was ABC/C; KJFF (its FM) was ABC/FM. Those affiliations were dropped when Brill took over the stations - 1982 or 1983, IIRC.
Don't know about Harvey post-WDAF flip, as that was after my time in Kansas City.
Now I remember KOMO airing him!! Wasn't his segments still aired when they went all-news and had the Mariners (early-mid '00s)?
KGDC isn't 'religious talk'. It's just another conservative talk station, a dime a dozen, with a 92.9 translator that gets out very well into the Tri-Cities. It mostly emulates the lineup on 1300 The Answer in Seattle. Prager, Larry Elder, etc. Plus Mariners coverage and a ton of local sports.
I think KMGK airs his reruns around 12:30 CT. It's during the noon information hour, with the local news, obituaries, and community calendar. It looks like they started airing those repeats during the *pandemic*. I'm not sure how they acquired these segments as KMGK was not an affiliate when he was alive. But it's fun to hear!
I stand corrected on KGDC format. Don't spend much time in the SE corner of the state these days.
Since WABC 770 was Top 40, another AM station, 710 WOR carried Harvey. He fit in better with WOR's older-skewing Talk format. WOR didn't carry anything else for ABC, except for once in a while using an ABC actuality from one of its national reporters during a locally anchored WOR newscast. But for the right to run Harvey, I'm sure WOR paid ABC handsomely!
I worked briefly at a station in Upstate NY that was proud to say it had radio's three biggest starts (at the time) on its airwaves: Paul Harvey (3x a day), Howard Cosell (his evening sportscast and Sunday public affairs interview show) and Larry King (syndicated overnight).
I worked briefly at a station in Upstate NY that was proud to say it had radio's three biggest starts (at the time) on its airwaves: Paul Harvey (3x a day), Howard Cosell (his evening sportscast and Sunday public affairs interview show) and Larry King (syndicated overnight).
KNLV-AM/FM Ord Nebraska aired Paul Harvey in the noon hour until his passing and for some time, carried his replacement.