Hugh Downs
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"Hugh Malcolm Downs" is a long-time American Presenter/broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as co-host of the NBC News program Today (U.S. TV program)/Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration (game show)/Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News news magazine/magazine 20/20 (U.S. TV series)/20/20 from 1978 to 1999. In addition, he's served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar, host of the Public Broadcasting Service/PBS talk show Over Easy, and co-host of the television syndication/syndicated talk show Not for Women Only.

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I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

To have a facility like this really adds a world-class potential (to the area). I'm sure I'll be out here to see some shows.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.