NEW YORK - Hugh Downs, whose congeniality and authoritative manner allowed him to move between the world of games shows and US network news, has died at the age of 99, according to US media reports.
"I thought TV was a gimmick like 3-D movies and it would just go away," Downs, who had a friendly, low-key manner on the air, said in an interview with the Archive of American Television.Downs' broadcasting career began at age 18 when he auditioned for a radio announcer job on a whim in his hometown of Lima, Ohio.
Downs had a co-starring role in one of television's most dramatic moments of the 1960s when the emotional Paar walked off the stage during taping in protest of NBC censoring one of his jokes. 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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