Game Show Announcers "Moonlighting"...

[TimK2003]

I came across an old aircheck from radio station WBT in Charlotte, NC from the late 60's/early 70s and to my surprise, Johnny Olsen had done many of the station IDs as the "official station voice-over person", or whatever the official title is.

I also recall in the mid-to-late 90s, Burton Richardson had advertised in the trade papers as an available station v/o for ID's, tags, etc... as well.

Any other announcers that did radio or TV station IDs in the past as a voice-over artists -- but NOT as air talent broadcasting on a regular shift???

[Kevin Prather]

John Kramer was the "official station voice-over person" at KNHC FM in Seattle for a while.

[gsgalaxy82]

Funny, I was just thinking of this last night when I was watching the Youtube video of TTD '90, though this would probably be the opposite. Larry Van Nuys has done a few V/O's for newscasts, and is probably well known for that more then for game show announcing.

[JasonA1]

Joe Cipriano of "Pictionary" (better known as the voice of FOX, and a lot of other places) was the voice of 97.1 FM in Detroit for a spell in the 90s/00s.

-Jason

[BrandonFG]

Wasn't Dave Williams an LA DJ around the time he announced for "Face the Music"?

[Craig Karlberg]

IIRC, Casey Kasem of AT40 fame once was an NBC v/o for a time in the late 70's.  He was the "unseen" host of 100% in the late 90's.

[Tim L]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'181990\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 04:25 AM\']
IIRC, Casey Kasem of AT40 fame once was an NBC v/o for a time in the late 70's.  He was the "unseen" host of 100% in the late 90's.
[/quote]

Casey Kasem also did announcing and DJ work at WJW-TV 8/AM Radio 850 Cleveland in 1959, as evidenced by this Cleveland TV Guide ad Christmas week, 1959..

http://bp0.blogger.com/_zhGDMDQ2osM/R28qkG...-h/scan0013.jpg

[Jamey Greek]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'181969\' date=\'Mar 19 2008, 08:10 PM\']
I came across an old aircheck from radio station WBT in Charlotte, NC from the late 60's/early 70s and to my surprise, Johnny Olsen had done many of the station IDs as the "official station voice-over person", or whatever the official title is.

I also recall in the mid-to-late 90s, Burton Richardson had advertised in the trade papers as an available station v/o for ID's, tags, etc... as well.

Any other announcers that did radio or TV station IDs in the past as a voice-over artists -- but NOT as air talent broadcasting on a regular shift???
[/quote]

Burton Richardson actually voiced a movie for KCOP 13 in LA.  I came across him voicing movie breaks for The Buddy Holly Story in 1994 on KCOP a couple years back.

[Jimmy Owen]

At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182021\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 01:37 PM\']
At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.
[/quote]
Owens also has a few drops on XM 6. "XM 60's on 6, made possible by alien technology which we totally deny!"

You're all forgetting Mark Driscoll, the original announcer on Chuck Henry's "Now You See It!" - he's a fairly prolific imaging voice heard on stations all over the country. I think one of his most notorious liners was "What the hell, here's another hit!"

Johnny Olson also did tons of commercials and promos. He's heard on a spot for "Matty's Funday Funnies" for ABC that is in circulation on YouTube and elsewhere. They used clips from old Paramount cartoons, and there's a combination of sonic experiences from my youth I never ever thought I'd hear - Johnny Olson talking over Winston Sharples music!

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182021\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 01:37 PM\']
At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.
[/quote]

 
Now you're scaring me!   That was when I was around the airwaves in Toledo (when Portside was to have sparked  the "New" Downtown Toledo...only to wither away a few years later).

I almost want to say that based on the aforementioned drop-ins, you were working at FM-104/WIOT??  If so, we may have crossed paths in the hallways of Ft. Industry Square.

And to those who say the storylines for WKRP are so far-fetched, then you haven't worked for Reams Communications!

/Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all...
/All through the day how the hours rush by...
/You sit in the park and you watch the grass die!!!

-- John Denver

[Jimmy Owen]

No, 3wm WWWM 105.5.  I also worked at WOHO.

[ChuckNet]

Funny, I was just thinking of this last night when I was watching the Youtube video of TTD '90, though this would probably be the opposite. Larry Van Nuys has done a few V/O's for newscasts, and is probably well known for that more then for game show announcing.

Indeed...he also did VOs for WGBS (Ch. 57, now WPSG) in Philly during the early 90s, as per Wikipedia.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[narzo]

been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.  

( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'182077\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 03:17 AM\']
been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.  

( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)
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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.