Radio Announcer Quotes

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

My dad was the original announcer on The Goon Show.'

I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

I was studying in Jaipur when All India Radio was inaugurated. As a child artiste, I participated and was selected for a children's programme.

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.