Hugh Downs, whose congeniality and authoritative manner allowed him to move between the world of game shows and U.S. network news, has died at the age of 99, the Arizona school named after him said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Hugh Downs, former host of the ABC news program"20/20" poses as he arrives for the ABC television networks 50th anniversary in Hollywood, U.S., March 16, 2003. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/File Photo
Downs’ television work ranged from “Today,” NBC’s morning news show, to “Tonight,” working with Jack Paar. In 1985 the “Guinness Book of World Records” said he had been on commercial television a record 15,188 hours - a mark that stood until Regis Philbin surpassed it in 2004. Bigger television assignments lay ahead in New York in the late 1950s - announcer on Sid Caesar’s “Caesar’s Hour” and announcer-sidekick to host Paar on “The Tonight Show” from 1957 until 1962.
Downs spent 11 years on “Today,” many as co-anchor with Barbara Walters, and interviewed scores of celebrities, politicians and other newsmakers. Each week he signed off the show by saying, “We’re in touch, so you be in touch,” before leaving the show and network television in 1999.
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