{"id":19903,"date":"2020-07-02T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hugh-downs-longtime-tv-personality-dead-at-99\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:55:00","slug":"hugh-downs-longtime-tv-personality-dead-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-downs-longtime-tv-personality-dead-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hugh Downs, longtime TV personality, dead at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 2, 2020 |<\/span> 2:55pm |<\/span> Updated July 2, 2020 | 3:39pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Hugh Downs, the avuncular, versatile TV personality, whose career stretched back to the birth of television, died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Wednesday. He was 99.<\/p>\n

Downs\u2019 long TV r\u00e9sum\u00e9 encompassed both news<\/a> and entertainment. He hosted NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show from 1962 to 1971, was late-night host Jack Paar\u2019s longtime announcer\/sidekick on \u201cThe Tonight Show,\u201d app<\/a>eared in dozens of commercials and even hosted the daytime quiz show \u201cConcentration\u201d for over a decade.<\/p>\n

Downs was perhaps best known as the co-host of ABC\u2019s newsmagazine \u201c20\/20,\u201d teaming with Barbara Walters, with whom he\u2019d worked at \u201cToday.\u201d They also co-hosted the short-lived syndicated daytime show \u201cNot for Women Only.\u201d<\/p>\n

His TV career began in 1950 as an announcer for the NBC soap \u201cHawkins Falls\u201d and never seemed to stop until he retired in 1999.<\/p>\n

In 1985, Downs was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as holding the record for the most hours on network commercial television (over 15,000) \u2014 a record that stood until it was broken by Regis Philbin in 2004.<\/sup><\/p>\n

His wife, Ruth Shaheen Downs, died in 2017 at the age of 95. They were married for 73 years.<\/p>\n

Downs is survived by his daughter, Deirdre; his son, Hugh R. \u201cH.R.\u201d Downs; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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