Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was the Miami-based co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report,^[1] a role he held from 1979, when the show was a local PBS program in Miami, through December 31, 2009.^[2] 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").^[3]

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Kangas entered the United States Coast Guard in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter Mackinaw.^{[citation needed]} Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio.^{[citation needed]} Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a Lieutenant (junior grade).^[3]

Kangas earned his broker's license after studying at the New York University Stern School of Business.^[4] While a stock broker,^[1] Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client.^[4]

Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979;^[1] in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.^[4] He retired as co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report at the end of 2009.^[3][5]

Kangas was of Finnish descent, and an amateur radio operator^[1] with the callsign W4LAA.^[3][6][7] He died on February 28, 2017, in Miami, Florida, from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.^[1][8]

• In 2005, Kangas won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.^[9]
• 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.^[10]