Mr. Harvey moved to Hawaii in 1940 to cover the U.S. Navy as it began to concentrate its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States from that assignment when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Paul Harvey enlisted into the Army Air Corps, where he served until 1944.

After leaving the corps, Mr. Harvey moved to Chicago, where in June 1944, he began broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR-AM. He quickly became the most listened to newscaster in Chicago.

Paul Harvey reached audiences way beyond the windy city in 1951, when he began his coast-to-coast News and Comment on the ABC Radio Networks. On May 10,1976, Mr. Harvey began another series of programs on the ABC Radio Networks entitled The Rest at the Story., which delve into the forgotten or little known facts behind stories of famous people and events.

Today, Paul Harvey "News and Comment" can be heard Monday through Saturday, and "The Rest of the Story", Monday through Saturday. Paul Harvey News is the largest one-man network, consisting of over 1200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations that broadcast around the world, and 300 newspapers.