Paul Harvey
Radio personality, Author
1918 – 2009
Who was Paul Harvey?
Paul Harvey Aurandt, better known as Paul Harvey, was a conservative American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Harvey's programs reached as many as 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers. His success with sponsors stemmed from the seamlessness with which he segued from his monologue into reading commercial messages. He explained his relationship with them, saying "I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."
The New York Times obituary says:
[He] "personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday.
"'Hello, Americans,' he barked. 'This is Paul Harvey! Stand byyy for Newwws!'
Famous Quotes:
- In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1918
Tulsa - Also known as
- Paul Harvey Aurandt
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lynne Cooper Harvey
(1940/06/04 - 2008/05/03)
- Lynne Cooper Harvey
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Tulsa
- Employment
- Cumulus Media Networks
(1951 - 2009) - WENR
- Director of Special Events, KXOK
- KOMA
- Station Manager, KSAL
- Program Director, KVOO-FM
- Cumulus Media Networks
- Lived in
- Tulsa
- Died
- Feb 28, 2009
Phoenix
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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