Paul Kangas
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Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was the Miami-based co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report,[1] a role he held from 1979, when the show was a local PBS program in Miami, through December 31, 2009.[2] He was known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").[3]
Career
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Kangas entered the United States Coast Guard in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter Mackinaw.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a Lieutenant (junior grade).[3]
Kangas earned his broker's license after studying at the New York University Stern School of Business.[4] While a stock broker,[1] Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client.[4]
Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979;[1] in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.[4] He retired as co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report at the end of 2009.[3][5]
Personal life and death
Kangas was of Finnish descent, and an amateur radio operator[1] with the callsign W4LAA.[3][6][7] He died on February 28, 2017, in Miami, Florida, from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.[1][8]
Awards and honors
- In 2005, Kangas won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.[9]
- The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas and Linda O'Bryon, the latter the founder of NBR and now chief content officer of Northern California Public Broadcasting.[10]
References
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- 1937 births
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- New York University Stern School of Business alumni
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- American people of Finnish descent
- American business and financial journalists
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