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Revision as of 07:53, 15 January 2004 by 207.179.108.132 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Paul Harvey is an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcasts a monologue Morning and Noon Monday through Friday and Noon on Saturday. His shows are mostly news and comment as well as his famous "The Rest of the Story" segment. His listening audience is estimated at 22 million people a week. Paul Harvey likes to say that he was raised in radio newsrooms.
Harvey was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Harvey made radio sets as a boy. In in 1933, at a high school teacher’s suggestion, he started working at KVOO/Tulsa. There he helped clean up and eventually was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and news.
Later, while attending the University of Tulsa, he continued working at KVOO as an announcer, and later as a program director. Harvey spent three years as a station manager for a local station in Salina, Kansas. From there, he moved to a news casting job at KOMA-AM in Oklahoma City, then moved on to KXOK-AM, in St. Louis, where he was Director of Special Events as well as working as a roving reporter.
In 1940, Harvey moved to Hawaii to cover the U.S. Navy as it concentrated its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States from assignment in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Harvey then enlisted in the Army Air Corps, where he served until 1944.
After leaving military service, Harvey moved to Chicago, where in June 1944, he began broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR-AM. He quickly became the most popular newscaster in Chicago.
In 1946, Harvey added The Rest of the Story segments to his newscasts, which eventually became its own series in 1976.
In 1951, the ABC Radio Networks carried Paul Harvey's show "News and Comment" coast-to-coast.
On May 10, 1976, Mr. Harvey began another series of programs on the ABC Radio Networks entitled "The Rest of the Story", which provided surprises as Harvey dug into the stories behind the stories of famous events people.
In 2001, Harvey was off the air for part of the year after damaging his vocal cords.
Paul Harvey News has been called the "largest one-man network in the world", as it is carried broadcast civilian radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations around the world, and 300 newspapers.
Harvey's "News and Comment" is streamed on the world wide web twice a day.
Harvey is married to Lynne Cooper (maiden name) of St. Louis. They have one son, Paul Jr.
Books
- Paul Harvey's for What It's Worth Bantam Books, New York, 1991 ISBN 0553077201
- Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story by Paul, Jr. Harvey, Paul Aurandt, 1999, ISBN 0808511181
External Links
- [http://www.paulharvey.com Paul Harvey - The Voice of the New Millennium
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Note
Should not be confused with Paul M. Harvey, the UT Astronomy Professor
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