Hugh Downs
Hugh Malcolm Downs is a longtime American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as cohost of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 2020 from 1978 to 1999. In addition, hes served as announcersidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar, host of the PBS talk show Over Easy, and cohost of the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only.
Downs was born on St. Valentines Day in the year 1921 in Akron, Ohio, to Edith and Milton Howard Downs, who worked in business. He was educated at Lima Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio Bluffton College, a Mennonite school in Bluffton, Ohio and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, during the period 1938 to 1941. He worked as a radio announcer and program director at WLOK in Lima, Ohio, after his first year of college. In 1940 he moved on to WWJ in Detroit. Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 and then joined the NBC radio network at WMAQ as an announcer in Chicago, Illinois, where he lived until 1954. He married a coworker, Ruth Shaheen in 1944, three days after his 23rd birthday. He also attended Columbia University in New York City during 195556.
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