Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Since leaving the game, Gower has enjoyed a new career as a cricket broadcaster and television personality, including being one of the team captains on the popular BBC comedy sports quiz, They Think It's All Over from 1995 till 2003.

Elgar's successor, Sir Walford Davies, a popular broadcaster, was the first Master of the King's Music to be well known to the public by this title.

He was popular as a broadcaster for his humor, knowledge of the game, and story-telling talent, and his broadcasts were heard throughout Michigan as the Tigers won pennants in 1934, 1935, 1940 and 1945.

Although she became popular with broadcaster ITV after her performance on An Audience With Dame Edna in 1980.

In 2002, CBS, broadcaster of the popular American reality show Survivor, unsuccessfully sued ABC and Granada TV over a planned American version of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, alleging similarities.

He became a popular public speaker on financial issues, syndicated newspaper columnist and radio broadcaster.

The lawsuit was co-filed by 34 film and affiliated companies including Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox as well the Seven Network, an Australian television broadcaster, and alleges breach of copyright on a number of popular movies and television shows.

Frederick William Harvey ( 26 March 1888 – 13 February 1957 ), often known as Will Harvey, and dubbed " the Laureate of Gloucestershire ", was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I.

His gift for oration, versatile voice and scripting led him to become a popular broadcaster at the BBC, Bristol, where he used his popularity to promote the Forest of Dean, its people and traditions.

Stan Zemanek ( 29 May 1947 – 12 July 2007 ) was an Australian radio broadcaster who presented a popular night time show on 2UE Sydney and which was networked across parts of Australia via Southern Cross.

While popular with much of his audience, Stan often boasted about being the most complained about broadcaster in the country, polarising opinions of those who didn't agree with his right-wing beliefs.

Fritz Ostermayer ( born 1956 in Schattendorf / Burgenland ), lives and works in Vienna as popular radio broadcaster (" Im Sumpf "/ FM4 ), author, DJ and musician.

The broadcaster previously had trouble filling the slot with a popular programme, with failed attempts including two daytime soap operas: Night and Day and Crossroads ( the latter a revival of the soap which had been cancelled in 1988 ).

* Carl Stuart Hamblen, a religious radio broadcaster, hosted the popular show " The Cowboy Church of the Air ".

" Lacy " refers to popular deejay Jack Lacy, a rival broadcaster of Sid's, whose show was called " Listen to Lacy " and who played standards and rock ' n ' roll ( thus: ' Hey Sid, don't play pop tunes and make us think we're listening to Lacy !').

For decades, WCCO radio was the most well-known and most popular broadcaster in the region, with an all-day talk format.

It had reached number two in the BBC's own charts, but the public service broadcaster — at that time the BBCs most popular radio channel — pulled it because of its lyrics.

Other major players in the United Kingdom media include ITV plc, which operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, and News Corporation, which owns a number of national newspapers through News International such as the most popular tabloid The Sun and the longest-established daily " broadsheet " The Times, as well as holding a large stake in satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.

Daniel Negley Farson ( 8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997 ) was a British writer and broadcaster, and a popular television personality and prominent public figure in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He subsequently became a newsreader for BBC World television and then moved to Hong Kong, where he became a popular broadcaster on the British Armed Forces radio service in the final years of British rule.

Rajendra Persaud (; ), also known as Raj Persaud ( Hindi: र ा ज परस ौ द ), born 13 May 1963, Reading, Berkshire is an English consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author of popular books about psychiatry.

Mark Simpson is an English journalist, writer, and broadcaster specialising in popular culture, media, and masculinity.

Anecdotal evidence suggest that racism was a key factor — in his book on the history of Australian radio, author and broadcaster Wayne Mac recounts that when a local Melbourne DJ of the 1960s played the new Ike and Tina Turner single " River Deep Mountain High " it was immediately pulled from the playlist by the station's program manager for being " too noisy and too black ".

Prior to joining the Suns on September 27, 1972 McCoy was the broadcaster for the Triple-A Phoenix Giants baseball club and " One of the Good Guys ," a DJ on KRUX 1360 AM.

Noel Ernest Edmonds, ( born 22 December 1948 ) is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK.

* Steve Wright ( DJ ), English broadcaster

The commercials for albums 18 through 38 are voiced by Radio award winning broadcaster Mai FM DJ, Doug " Big D " Te Moni.

Following the demise of Radio AAHS, Children's Broadcasting enlisted longtime area programmer, DJ and unlicensed broadcaster Alan Freed to provide interim programming for their 10 stations until they could be sold.

The original DJ lineup on 105 KITS consisted of program director Jeff Hunter 6 – 9am, followed by Doug Ritter 9am – 12pm, Gary Robbins 12 – 3pm, Todd Parker 3 – 7pm, Richard Sands 7 – midnight, and Rick Neal ( George Fryer ) midnight – 6am, Mark Van Gelder was 105 KITS first Production Director, Annette Parks ( daughter of pioneer broadcaster and Miss America Pageant Host Bert Parks ) was the station's news director, and Michele Meisner ( formerly of San Francisco's Fantasy Studios ) was music director.

Stuart Adamson ( 11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001 ), born William Stuart Adamson, was an English-born Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, described by legendary broadcaster and DJ John Peel as “ Britain ’ s answer to Jimi Hendrix ”.

Ted Robbins ( born 21 January 1956 ) is an English comedian, actor, broadcaster, radio DJ, radio personality, voice-over artist and television personality

In the 1970s, WFBR's on-air talent featured popular personalities such as " The Flying Dutchman " Pete Berry ; Ron Matz, and his fictitious alter-ego, " Harry Horni "; Johnny Walker, a wildly popular morning DJ who was " cutting edge " for his time ; " The Coach ", Charley Eckman, a former NBA basketball coach and referee, who later became a Baltimore sportscasting legend ; and a young, but experienced, broadcaster named Tom Marr who pulled double-duty as a newsman and sportscaster for the station.

Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

He was a broadcaster working for the BBC.

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski ( 20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964 ) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.

Meanwhile, play-by-play TV broadcaster Len Kasper was also lost to the Chicago Cubs and replaced by Rich Waltz ( who had previously been with the Seattle Mariners ), and radio announcer John " Boog " Sciambi was replaced by Roxy Bernstein.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

The show was pitched directly to the UK's Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 by the duo, contrary to rumours that RTÉ ( the Irish national broadcaster ) were originally offered the series but rejected it.

The manager of these title teams was Larry Dierker, who had previously been a broadcaster and pitcher for the Astros.

Voight was almost unrecognizable under his make-up and toupee, as he impersonated the sports broadcaster Howard Cosell.

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

Marv Albert was the lead play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA on NBC for most of its run from 1990-2002, calling every NBA Finals during that timeframe except for 1998, 1999 and 2000.

In 2011, Albert was named an announcer for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the result of longtime tournament broadcaster CBS handing off some of its coverage to Turner Sports.

" Brown also quoted William Shaw, a broadcaster who was presenting the Cult Fiction series on BBC Radio Five Live: " Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.

" The home run not only prompted broadcaster Jack Buck's " Go crazy folks " play-by-play call, but was also later voted the greatest moment in Busch Stadium history by Cardinals fans.

For the 2009 season the Phillies added black, circular " HK " patches to their uniforms over their hearts in honor of broadcaster Harry Kalas, who died April 13, 2009, just before he was to broadcast a Phillies game.

Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.

On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.

Miami cornerback Tim Foley, a future broadcaster who was injured and would not play in Super Bowl VII, was writing daily stories for a Miami newspaper and interviewed George Allen and Redskin players, provoking charges from Allen that Foley was actually spying for Shula.

The game was televised in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden ( the latter making his Super Bowl debut as a broadcaster ).

Former CBS play-by-play and ESPN golf broadcaster Jim Kelly was the play-by-play announcer for many of those games in the 1980s, and Joe Namath was a commentator.