Radio Legend Paul Harvey Dies
Paul Harvey Passes Away
The “most listened to man” in radio broadcasting passed away Saturday. After more than 70 years on the air, venerable radioman Paul Harvey’s folksy speech and plain talk are no more.
Harvey passed away on Saturday, at the age of 90, at a hospital near his winter home in Phoenix.
His wife, Lynne Cooper Harvey, had passed away nine months earlier. He often called her “Angel” while he was on the air, and she was also his business partner and the first producer ever inducted in the the Radio Hall of Fame. She died in May 2008 at the age of 92.
“My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news,” Paul Harvey Jr. said Saturday. “So, in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents. And, today millions have lost a friend.”
Harvey’s career in radio spanned more than seven decades, and his shows “News & Comment” and “Rest of the Story” made him a familiar voice in Americans’ homes across the country.
From his humble beginnings as a teen who just helped clean up at a local radio station, Harvey went on to a bright future and have his broadcasts carried by 1,350 commercial radio stations, as well as 400 stations of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Paul Harvey was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
