<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CQEDMED%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CQEDMED%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CQEDMED%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style><a name="" target="" classname="" class="" href="http://www.insightshd.com">Insights Hugh Downs</a> <a name="" target="" classname="" class="" href="http://www.1888pressrelease.com/insights-with-host-hugh-downs-launches-new-series-on-environ-pr-137351.html">Insights with Hugh Downs</a> :Insights :Insights Television Series :Insights Series :Insights HD :Insightshd.com Hugh Downs is the most well-known American broadcaster and television host of the last century.   Downs made his first television news broadcast in September 1945 from the still experimental studio of WBKB-TV, a station then owned by the Balaban and Katz theater subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. He became a TV regular, announcing for Hawkins Falls in 1950, the first successful television soap opera, which was sponsored by Lever Brothers Surf detergent. Downs became a bona fide television "personality" as Jack Paar's announcer on The Tonight Show from July 1957 until Paar's departure in March, 1962, and then shared hosting until Johnny Carson took over in October 1962. <u4:p></u4:p><o:p></o:p><u4:p> </u4:p>In August 1958 he concurrently began an eleven-year run hosting the original version of the game show Concentration. He hosted NBC's Today Show for nine years from September 1962 to October 1971. He co-hosted the syndicated television program Not for Women Only with Barbara Walters in 1975 and 1976. He is best known as the co-anchor of the ABC news TV show 20/20, a primetime news magazine program. His closing tagline was, "We're in touch, so you be in touch."A published composer himself, Downs hosted the PBS showcase for classical music, Live from Lincoln Center from 1990 to 1996.<u4:p></u4:p><u4:p> </u4:p> www.insightshd.com Insights PBS Insights Public Television Insights PTV Insights Public TV Insights medical Insights business Insights architecture Insights travel Insights cultural Insights culture Insights environment Insights eco Insights green Insights culinary Insights education Insights educational <u4:p> </u4:p>In 1985, he was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as holding the record for the greatest number of hours on network commercial television (15,188 hours) until 2004.<u4:p></u4:p><o:p></o:p><u4:p> </u4:p>Downs was a special consultant to the United Nations for refugee problems from 1961-64 and served as Chairman of the Board of the United States Committee for UNICEF. Always interested in science and space, Downs wrote a column for Science Digest during the 1960s. He was Science Consultant to Westinghouse Laboratories and the Ford Foundation and an elected member of the National Academy of Science.   The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University is named in his honor. <o:p></o:p><u4:p> </u4:p>Mr. Hugh Downs is the host for this series distributed to Public TV stations coast to coast.  Mr. Downs' professional manner in the roles of announcer, host, and anchor is unrivaled.<u4:p></u4:p>