Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was the

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-based co-anchor of the

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'', a role he held from 1979, when the show was a local PBS program in Miami, through December 31, 2009. He was known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").

Career

After graduating from the

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, Kangas entered the

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in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter ''Mackinaw''. Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio. Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a

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. Kangas earned his broker's license after studying at the

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. While a stock broker, Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client. Kangas joined ''Nightly Business Report'' in 1979; in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the

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at Northwestern University. He retired as co-anchor of the ''Nightly Business Report'' at the end of 2009.

Personal life and death

Kangas was of

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descent, and an amateur radio operator with the callsign W4LAA. He died on February 28, 2017, in Miami, Florida, from complications of

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and prostate cancer, aged 79.

Awards and honors

*In 2005, Kangas won a

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Silver Circle Award. *The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas and Linda O'Bryon, the latter the founder of NBR and now chief content officer of Northern California Public Broadcasting.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kangas, Paul 1937 births 2017 deaths New York University Stern School of Business alumni People from Houghton, Michigan American people of Finnish descent American business and financial journalists American male journalists American broadcast news analysts PBS people University of Michigan alumni