Paul Harvey — (1918-2009) — R.I.P.
Saturday, the great broadcasting legend, Paul Harvey passed away at the age of 90. You can read his bio on the Paul Harvey website which tells of his life better than I can in this blog entry. However, I would like to relate one thing from my early days in radio broadcasting.
The first radio station at which I worked was a little 5K watt southern Mississippi station with the call letters WABO. Like many southern radio stations, it aired daily Paul Harvey news and comments as well as his “Rest Of The Story” segments. One of my job duties was to make sure to get it recorded on reel-to-reel tape for broadcast later in the hour. I really enjoyed those segments although the station made it a little difficult because they wanted local ads played between Harvey’s segments which was difficult because there were little to no pauses between the time Harvey would say “page two” and begin the second segment. However it did force me to sharpen my timing and reactions so fairly soon, I could seamlessly insert those spots between segments and while the local spots played, I could re-cue the taped Paul Harvey program so start the next segment immediate when the local spots finished. It was a talent that served me very well in my radio career and eventually in my television career.
And in the legendary words of Paul Harvey
“Now you know…the REST of the story.”
Paul Harvey…good-day to you, sir.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
rest in peace…nice post~!:)