Louis Rukeyser has died.....

[BERIGAN]

I couldn't tell you why, but I remember watching his show on PBS off and on, from a very young age. He was very funny, and seemed a very genuine, kind person. Rest in Peace.....

Louis Rukeyser, hosted financial show on TV

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Louis Rukeyser, a bestselling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73.

Mr. Rukeyser died at his home in Greenwich after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a rare bone-marrow cancer, said his brother, Bud Rukeyser.

As host of ``Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser'' on public TV from 1970 until 2002, Rukeyser took a wry approach to the ups and downs in the market and urged guests to avoid jargon. He brought finance and economics to viewers and investors, and was rewarded with the largest audience in the history of financial journalism.

``He brings to the tube a blend of warmth, wit, irreverence, thrusting intellect and large doses of charm, plus the credibility of a Walter Cronkite,'' Money magazine wrote.

Mr. Rukeyser also won numerous awards and honors, including a citation as the only sex symbol of the ``dismal science'' of economics.

Mr. Rukeyser quit ``Wall Street Week'' and moved to CNBC in March 2002 rather than go along with a plan to demote him and use younger hosts to update the format.

Less than a month later, ``Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street'' made its debut on financial network CNBC.

Mr. Rukeyser, who was born in New York on Jan. 30, 1933, rejected the idea that economics is ``too dull and/or too complicated to hold an audience larger than the capacity of your average telephone booth.''

``That's nonsense,'' he told the Associated Press. ``There is a hunger in the American public for clear, believable, understandable, usable pocketbook information.''

Edited May 3, 2006 by BERIGAN

[Jazzmoose]

I'll admit I used to watch him as well, mainly for his monologue. I usually skipped the elves...

[fasstrack]

He always seemed like a nice guy. Money was his thing---like music is some of ours. Would that I wasn't born so stupid and was instead more like him. I'd be making some equally smart (and beautiful) woman very happy right about now

I'm not sure exactly what happened and sure don't care, but I thought PBS was pretty classless to dump his show.

[Randy Twizzle]

Back in the 80s, I ocasionally frequented a working class bar in Hoboken NJ, where the elderly bartender would tune the TV to Wall Street Week every Friday night and carefully watch the show, often ignoring the customers. Once during a very early visit before I knew about his devotion to the show, I asked him if he could change the channel to a Mets game, "After Rukeyser" he spat out, looking none to happy that this punk briefly interupted his weekly ritual. I have to admit he gave me the creeps. (Rukeyser, not the bartender).

[alocispepraluger102]

Back in the 80s, I ocasionally frequented a working class bar in Hoboken NJ, where the elderly bartender would tune the TV to Wall Street Week every Friday night and carefully watch the show, often ignoring the customers. Once during a very early visit before I knew about his devotion to the show, I asked him if he could change the channel to a Mets game, "After Rukeyser" he spat out, looking none to happy that this punk briefly interupted his weekly ritual. I have to admit he gave me the creeps. (Rukeyser, not the bartender).

RIP. thanks for the hundreds of immensely entertaining and informative wall street week shows.