30 years of wishing you the best of good-buys

13 January 2010 - Filed under Life Outside Work

I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show.

I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie Gharib since I started watching the programme in 2006, first on delayed satellite service on SBS in Australia and now via online streaming. To me, NBR continues to be a great source of learning as well as business news and insights. Programmes like NBR make public broadcasting a great service for all including international viewers.

Having begun his NBR career as “stockman” in 1979, Paul Kangas is famous for his ever-consistent closing remark at the end of each night’s show: “Wishing YOU the best of good buys.” As complimented by the NBR team and long-time guests on the last show with Paul Kangas, 30 years of serving the public as the face of an internationally renowned television programme is a truly awe-inspiring achievement, one that deserves a standing ovation even by remote casual viewers such as myself.

Obviously, this is not the end of anything. I don’t know how old Paul Kangas is, but he has just gone onto a new chapter of his life, something I am sure is consistent with his personal mantra:

Good, better, best -
Never let it rest
Till the good is the better
And the better is the best.

Nightly Business Report, meanwhile, moves on with a new logo, a new face, and most significantly, a new signal music – one that I think I will have some trouble getting used to.

2010-01-13  »  JK