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News & Comment
Paul Harvey has long been known for his News and Comment segments. He came up with the concept in 1951 and under various forms used it until his death in 2009.
In later years, he had two versions of News & Comment - the 5 minute Morning News and the 15 minute Noon News.
Note: These files are stored on an off-site "cloud" storage site to save storage space. Maybe eventually they'll be stored here too.
PLEASE READ THIS NOW!!! These ZIP files are ENCRYPTED with a PASSWORD. The password for these files is a particular person's FIRST and LAST names, all one word, all lower case. Take a wild guess what the name is? (grin). I had to do this to prevent stealing by other websites. Thanks for your understanding.
Instructions:
1. Download the selected file from the "cloud server".
2. Use WinZip or PKZip to uncompress the file. (You can also use 7 Zip which is totally free.)
3. When prompted, use the password to decrypt. (Remember: First and Last name, all one word, all lower case.)
Click to "fast foward" to the appropriate sub-section:
Morning News | Noon News | Post-Death Tributes | Gil Gross News & Comment
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The Morning News & Comment was a 5 minute segment that aired usually around 8:30 AM Monday through Friday. The last several years of the Morning News were hosted by Paul Harvey Jr.
May 24, 2008 (Paul Jr.)
February 27, 2009 (Paul Jr.)
The Noon News & Comment was a 15 minute segment that usually aired after the ABC News and local news segments and a series of local and national commercials from Monday through Saturday. Saturday's broadbast was a recap of the previous week's top news stories, recorded on the previous day (Friday).
Typically this was aired from 12:06 PM until 12:21 PM (following the ABC news, local news, and commercials). In later years with stations that carried satellite fed programming (Rush Limbuagh and others), this could have aired as early as 11:45 AM and ran until the 12 noon news.
There were lots of fill-in hosts. This was a "cast of thousands" but in later years there was Fred Thompson, Doug Limerick, Gil Gross and Ron Chapman. Gross (morning) and Limerick (afternoons) were named Harvey's eventual successors, but three weeks after Harvey's death, the entire News and Comment franchise was canceled.
(Webmaster's guess - ABC/Citadel had already sold ad time for the Noon News & Comment. When that had been "used up", ABC/Citadel didn't want to continue on. Either they felt that Gil Gross wasn't having the ratings they needed, or they wanted to give it to Mike Huckabee's show (did anyone actually carry it??) or they just wanted to kill the segment because it didn't fit in with the current role of the company with full program blocks.)
The last Noon News that Paul did was February 16, 2009. After that and until his death less than two weeks later, Ron Chapman filled in as host.
In order to save server space, these files have been stored in RAR format compressed files by the year that the News & Comment segment aired. Click on these to go to the off-site storage facility and download them to your hard drive. Use WinZip or PKZIP to uncompress these MP3 files your hard drive.
(Eventually these will also be stored locally on this site, but that will take a while.. in the meantime use the off-site storage facility. Thanks!)
These are hosted by Paul Harvey excepted as noted.
1963_WSG (at WSG Savannah, GA)
1966 (Date Unknown, partial show, muffled audio)
1983-12-31
2001-09-11
2001-09-13
2001-09-142002-12-31
2003-04-22
2003-05-05
2003-06-25
2003-07-29
2003-09-11
2003-09-12
2003-11-25
2003-12-17
2003-12-312005-12-03
2005-12-08
2005-12-09
2005-12-12
2005-12-16
2005-12-192006-01-21
2006-01-31
2006-07-29
2006-08-02
2006-08-03
2006-08-04
2006-08-192007-01-05
2007-01-06
2007-01-27
2007-03-03
2007-03-10
2007-03-31
2007-04-07
2007-04-14
2007-04-21
2007-04-24
2007-04-28
2007-05-05
2007-05-12
2007-05-19
2007-05-26
2007-06-02
2007-06-09
2007-08-04
2007-08-11
2007-08-18
2007-09-01
2007-09-08
2007-09-15
2007-09-22
2007-09-29
2007-10-06
2007-10-13
2007-10-19
2007-10-20
2007-10-22
2007-10-23
2007-10-24
2007-10-25
2007-10-262008-07-21
2008-07-29
2008-09-17_Ron_Chapman
2008-10-01_Ron_Chapman
2008-10-02
2008-10-03
2008-10-06
2008-10-07
2008-10-08
2008-10-09
2008-10-10
2008-10-13
2008-10-14
2008-10-15
2008-10-16
2008-10-172009-01-02
2009-01-03
2009-01-05
2009-01-07
2009-01-09
2009-01-10
2009-01-19
2009-01-21
2009-01-24_Paul_Jr
2009-01-26
2009-01-28
2009-01-30
2009-01-31
2009-02-02
2009-02-04
2009-02-06
2009-02-07
2009-02-09
2009-02-11
2009-02-13
2009-02-14
2009-02-16 (last Paul Harvey hosted Noon News broadcast)
2009-02-27_Ron_Chapman
2009-02-28_Ron_Chapman (last broadcast of the Paul Harvey franchise)
The week after Paul passed way, ABC/Citadel ran a week long series of tributes to Paul. These were hosted by Gil Gross.
ABC Special (Note: This is 37 minutes long.)
Morning News Tributes (March 2nd through March 6th 2009)
Noon News Tributes (March 2nd through March 6th 2009)
"I'm Gil Gross and I have some stories to tell you."
ABC/Citadel attempted to continue on the News and Comment franchise with Gil Gross as the morning and noon time host. This only lasted a couple of weeks. I only manged to get about a week's worth from the Paul Havey website.
Gil Gross Morning News (March 9 to March 13, 2009)
Gil Gross Noon News (March 9 to 13, 2009)
Page Last Updated March 25, 2012