Paul Dixon (entertainer)
Paul Dixon | |
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Dixon in 1970 publicity photo | |
| Born | Gregory Schleier October 2, 1918 Earling, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 1974 (aged 56) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Radio announcer and newscaster, disc jockey, television personality, daytime talk/variety show host |
| Spouse | Marge Dixon |
| Children | Pamela, Greg |
Paul Dixon (October 2, 1918 – December 28, 1974) was a daytime television personality and talk show host in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his career with radio shows in New York City and Chicago before being enticed to come to then-radio station WCPO in Cincinnati as a news reporter and announcer around 1945. He was chosen best newscaster in Cincinnati in 1947 after conducting an interview with men trapped in a collapsed downtown building.
Eventually abandoning radio news in favor of entertainment, he spent his first few years in television as host of Paul Dixon's Song Shop, a three-hour daily show he co-hosted with Dottie Mack and Wanda Lewis pantomiming to records of the day. By 1954 his show was so popular that Dumont Television enticed Dixon to come to New York to do the show nationally. After a year a homesick Dixon returned to Cincinnati, and hired on at WLWT to host a new daytime TV show geared to housewives.