[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Feb 26 2004, 04:58 PM\']Back in the day, Don Pardo announced for Goodson, Stewart and Griffin and I'm assuming he did these as an employee of NBC, not the production company, or is that incorrect?[/quote]
That is correct. The network expected the production companies or sponsors to use their staff announcers whenever possible, although they didn't have to. Bern Bennett, Hal Simms, Wayne Howell and Bill Wendell were all network employees when announcing game shows.