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R I P Paul Harvey

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News will never be the same. I was his producer in the field for one day.
As Bernie, Paul's engineer told me: "You've never ridden gain until you ride it with Brother Paul."

Good day, Paul.
 
ABC Radio is doing special updates on the half-hour around the clock after the first report from the network at 4:54 p.m. Pacific / 6:54 p.m. Central / 7:54 Eastern.

A special one hour tribute will be aired tonight and tomorrow, according to ABC Radio News:



The Passing of Paul Harvey

ABC News Radio has learned that Paul Harvey passed away this morning, February 28, 2009.

ABC News Radio will have extensive coverage of the death of broadcasting legend Paul Harvey.

Tonight, we will air (2) Status Reports PER HOUR on ABC 50 at :00:30 and :30:30 after each hour until 12:00:30am ET
On Sunday, March 1st, we will air (1) Status Report PER HOUR on ABC 50 at :30:30 after the hour from 12:30:30am ET until 5:30:30am ET.

On Sunday, March 1st, we will air (2) Status Report PER HOUR on ABC 50 at :30:30 after the hour from 6:00:30am ET until 11:30:30am ET.

We will air a One Hour Special on the Life of Paul Harvey on ABC 51 TONIGHT at 8:06 pm, and repeat that special at 9:06pm, 10:06pm, 11:06pm, and 12:06am ET

This program will also be placed on ABCNewscall.com in the Longform tab, for your use at any hour.

In addition, we will have extensive actuality on Mr. Harvey's life and career on Newscall and ABCNewscall.com.

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Mr. Harvey is now reunited with his dearest "Angel" for eternity ... where, hopefully, both with enjoy a "Good Day" forever.

Our condolences to Paul, Jr. on the loss of his Dad ... and "part of the family" for generations.

Thank you, Mr. Harvey ... for all of the "Rest Of The Stories" ... and, sadly, this one to report on yours.

R.I.P.
 
What a precious memory that must be, I hope you have a picture! Anyone in radio who does not list Paul Harvey as a reason they are in radio and one of the people they looked up to isnot, nor will they ever be, a true broadcaster.

I ran News and Commentary and The Rest of the Story at several of my radio homes in markets large and small. At my very first station it was one of the coolest things I did all day, and at my two big, 50 kilowatt AM radio homes it added to the polish of those two great old ladies of radio to run that booming voice three times a day.

One of the all time greats has hung up his headphones. May all of us one day achieve one thousandth of the excellence that he brought to the mike every day for generations.
 
Friends,

Here is a sad aside, and a true "Rest of the Story" story on Paul Harvey ...

It was February 28th, 2008 ... exactly one year ago today ... that Mr. Harvey took leave of absence from ABC Radio because of health problems that he had been bravely battling, but had been sidelining him for at least three months.

It was then nearly three months later, with the passing of Mr. Harvey's wife, Lynn "Angel" Harvey.

With morning fill-in from Ron Chapman of other substituting host, Paul, Jr. took over the reins of the morning cast, Ron Chapman took over the noon broadcast, and Paul, Jr. ... who writes the "Rest of the Story" program ... gave way to his Dad's return during the summer of 2008, as the shows were pre-taped.

Imagine this coincidence of Life ... one year to the day, a legend ... and a much missed one ... passes. We had all hoped for better circumstances and, possibly, a farewell broadcast.

As my friend Johnny Williams, formerly all nite man at KHJ in Los Angeles during its finest years said on Bill Drake's passing just brief months ago ... the same is true for Paul Harvey, "I thought he'd live forever."
 
Lifes parade won't nearly be as interesting to watch now that the main parade watcher has been called home.

Unequaled. Unparallelled. There is no one today that can open a microphone and deliver news and comment with such grace.

Our best to Paul Harvey Junior.
 
I'll never forget listening to Paul Harvey every morning and late afternoon on WLS in the 60s.
There will never be another like him.
 
My first day at ABC Radio in New York, I was in the newsroom, and they had these small monitors on the desks where the staff could listen to the network feed. As it came up on the noon hour, I hear the William Tell Overture come down the line. I was told that was ABC Chicago, and they were about to feed Paul Harvey. I don't know if the public knew about that. It may have just been internal. But it was the way the engineers in master control knew Chicago was up, the line was live, and they were ready to feed the most profitable show on the network.
 
You are correct. Thank you for that keen insight. Once in awhile, that very feed would make it "down the line" in the pre-satellite days to a confused board op. (That would have been me, way back then.)

Also, I remember when the switch from phone lines to satellite came about ... and there were complaints to engineering that "Paul Harvey doesn't sound the same," on the sat feed than on the telco line.

There is also rumor ... funny and quite possibly true ... that Paul was required to use not one, but two microphones (both EV RE-20s if I'm not mistaken ... (maybe Bernie will, in time, tell the tale,) because "Paul is the franchise. We lose that mike, we've lost Paul Harvey. Odds are better that we don't lose if we have two mikes ...

In addition to meeting Mr. Harvey twice in Brownwood and Big Spring, Texas ... I will never forget as a programmer/consultant at the William B. Tanner Co., in Memphis ... the day after my first studio engineer was tragically killed during a fiery crash of his first airplane ride ... and pilot's training ... the heartwrenchingly beautiful story that Mr. Harvey delivered about how "...a young man was on his first ever plane flight ... while a group of graduating pilots-in-training ... were on their last. No one survived the crash in the Memphis skies as the two planes collided."

Mr. Harvey could say in so few, concise words, what took so many others, paragraphs. You felt like he spoke from his heart.

I believe he did.

Heaven has, now, it's consummate commentator. And in "Angel" ... the consummate executive producer.

Together ... again.
 
Radio has lost a true living legend.

Good day, Paul Harvey, and may you rest in peace.
 
Among Chicago great broadcasters influenced by Paul Harvey is Larry Lujack. You can here the similarities on old airchecks of Lujack from his broadcasts on LS and CFL. While the two were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, both were true professionals in the broadcast industry.

From the BIE Microphone: Thank you, Mr. Harvey, for many years of Broadcasting in Excellence.
 
I'd like to hear the ABC radio tribute, but with it being on the weekend I doubt if many stations in my area will take time out of their regular format to carry it. I checked the www.paulharvey.com website, and there is a tribute, but nothing about the radio special. Is there anywhere I can get the radio tribute online or as a podcast?
 
Sometimes I didn't agree with him, and sometimes I did.  But, especially during the four years I was in radio journalism, I always knew he was the gold standard of not one, but three facets of radio broadcasting.....news, entertainment, and salesmanship! 

Has ANYONE ever understood or made use of the medium better?

RIP, sir.
 
oaktree said:
There is also rumor ... funny and quite possibly true ... that Paul was required to use not one, but two microphones (both EV RE-20s if I'm not mistaken ... (maybe Bernie will, in time, tell the tale,) because "Paul is the franchise. We lose that mike, we've lost Paul Harvey. Odds are better that we don't lose if we have two mikes ...
Click to expand...

To quote one of his famous pregnant pauses: "It's......true!"

From Scott Fybush's Tower Site Of The Week archive of 12-25-03--

http://www.fybush.com/site-031225.html

Scroll down about two-thirds of the way to see the Paul Harvey studio.
 
anotherguy said:
I'd like to hear the ABC radio tribute...(snip)...Is there anywhere I can get the radio tribute online or as a podcast?
Click to expand...

The WGN radio website has a page devoted to Remembering Paul Harvey:

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=27&Itemid=125

At the bottom of the section titled Paul Harvey Audio is a link to an mp3
file titled "ABC News special on the life and career of Paul Harvey" which
runs 37:19. This may be what you are looking for.
 
I always enjoyed listening to Paul Harvey, from his news to "The Rest of the Story".

I have a story to tell:

The radio station I worked for in the late '70's decided they could sell more spots if they didn't have to clear the ABC network spots anymore. So the station went with AP Network news. I ended up doing vacation fill mid-day on the first day we didn't carry Paul Harvey News and Comment. The storm of phone calls for 3 full days tells how many people enjoyed listening to him in Fort Lauderdale. I remember I asked the owner's daughter who was filling in on the switchboard answering the business line if she got any calls. The look on her face said it all.

As a broadcaster if you ran "Paul Harvey" as part of your shift you were given a real treat and a lesson on being a great communicator.
 
It is really a sad day for radio journalism. There will never be another newsman quite like him, and I think that ABC should pull the plug on its 15 minute cast as a tribute to him. Ron Chapman tries hard, but just doesn't cut it. Perhaps if they persuaded his son, only then should the franchise be kept alive. God bless you Paul. May you transmit from a million watt microphone in the sky. When it thunders down here, we'll know you're talking.
 
When I was in high school in the 60s I was in a daily driving pool.
On the day that it was my turn to drive when Paul Harvey came on WLS in the morning I'd be listening
much to the dismay of my other passengers. They'd be urging me to switch to music on WCFL, but I'd say that on the day you guys drive you can listen to music, I'm listening to Paul Harvey.
My friends were mad at me, but they got over it.
 
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