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Paul Pepper

American television host

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7152914 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Pepper (real name: Paul Urzi) is a TV host, and used to host a local-focused interview radio show, titled "Radio Friends with Paul Pepper" on KBIA 91.3, mid-Missouri's public radio station. Paul Pepper is a former weatherman for KOMU-TV which serves the central Missouri area (based just south of Columbia, Missouri).

On Friday, September 18, 2009 the TV show Pepper and Friends went off-air after 6343 shows.

Editorial summary

“Paul Pepper” enters the record as american television host. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paul, Pepper and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paul, Pepper and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Paul Pepper” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paul, Pepper and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7152914. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Pepper” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.