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Paul Harvey has said that he was raised in radio newsrooms.
During his time in those newsrooms, he has broadcast the news to
millions, built an active professional life and established
himself as one of the foremost newsmen in the business.
Born and raised in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, Mr. Harvey began his radio career in 1933 at KVOO-AM,
Tulsa, while he was still in high school. Later, while
attending the University of Tulsa, he continued working at
KVOO as an announcer, then as a program director.
After graduation, Mr. Harvey
spent three years as a station manager for a local station in
Salina, Kansas. From there, he took a news casting job at KOMA-AM
in Oklahoma City, then moved on to KXOK-AM, St. Louis, where
he was Director of Special Events as well as working as a
roving reporter.
Mr. Harvey moved to Hawaii in
1940 to cover the U.S. Navy as it began to concentrate its
fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States
from that assignment when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Paul Harvey enlisted into the Army Air Corps, where he served
until 1944.
After leaving the corps, Mr.
Harvey moved to Chicago, where in June 1944, he began
broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR-AM. He quickly became
the most listened-to newscaster in Chicago.
Paul Harvey reached audiences
way beyond the windy city in 1951, when he began his
coast-to-coast "News and Comment" on the ABC Radio
Networks. On May 10, 1976, Mr. Harvey began another series of
programs on the ABC Radio Networks entitled "The Rest of the
Story", which delve into the forgotten or little known facts
behind stories of famous people and events.
Today, Paul Harvey "News and
Comment" and "The Rest of the Story" can be heard every Monday
through Saturday. Paul Harvey News is the largest one-man
network in the world, consisting of over 1200 radio stations,
400 Armed Forces Network stations that broadcast around the
world, and 300 newspapers.
Paul Harvey's reach continues
to broaden in the 21st Century, as "News and Comment" is
streamed on the world wide web twice a day.
Mr. Harvey is married to the
former Lynne Cooper of St. Louis. They have one son, Paul Jr. |
