Admittedly, I was never a Paul Harvey fan, which for a radio-head (me) with decades of the biz behind him is a little unusual. His style never appealed to me, I thought it was strange, contrived. I likewise never much cared for his blurring the lines between news-commentary-advertising. I suppose many of Harvey's listeners knew where the lines were, and what was what, but an equal number of listeners never did.
Still, his longevity had to be admired, and I do admire it.
I'll take a guess here and say that most posters, even radio-heads, under the age of forty, and maybe beyond forty, have little idea who Paul Harvey even was. Although Harvey was "appointment listening" for an awful lot of Americans, and once upon a time he was indeed, that is a status that has passed forever.
Could he be replaced? Sure, probably so. But if the reports of his salary and all else are valid, no network is going to offer a deal like that ever again. Not enough of Harvey's beloved "Americans" listen to radio these days with any regularity.
Harvey led a magical and mystical life in radio. Twenty, thirty years ago, many of us could have aspired to that kind of life knowing that it might be possible. Today it is not. There was only one job in radio like that and it died with Paul Harvey.
As an aside to emo, nothing seems to move this board these days, nothing appears to be driving it. Slower than slow. So much so, in fact, that I seldom even check it nowadays.
