Cass filled in as announcer for Jack Paar's late night talk show that aired in the 1970s on ABC.

Pangborn was very briefly the announcer on Jack Paar's The Tonight Show, but was fired after the first few weeks for a lack of " spontaneous enthusiasm " and replaced by Hugh Downs.

Paar's emotional nature made the everyday routine of putting together a 105-minute program difficult to continue for long.

Paar's prime time show aired for three years, including guests such as Brother Dave Gardner, Peter Ustinov, Lawrence of Arabia's brother, Richard Burton, Oscar Levant, Lowell Thomas, Muhammad Ali reciting his poetry to piano accompaniment by Liberace, an occasionally funny Judy Garland, Jonathan Winters, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby ( whose nickname for Paar was " The Boss "), Bette Davis, Robert Morley, Cliff Arquette ( as Charlie Weaver ), Dick Gregory and many others.

He also wrote the music for Paar's theme song, " IM4U " ( lyrics by Sev F. Marino ), and he performed with Paar on other shows, including Parr ’ s Startime ( 1960 ).

In addition, a 1963 Cadillac convertible, given to Garland as partial payment for appearances on Jack Paar's television program, was titled to Begelman.

He was best known for his appearances as a frequent guest on Jack Paar's shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The final closing segment of the series, broadcast on June 25, 1965, featured Paar sitting alone on a stool, sharing a discussion that he had with his daughter Randy, who called Paar's departure a sabbatical.

PBS television devoted an edition of the American Masters series to Paar's career in 1997, and in 2003 revisited the topic with another hour-long examination of the Paar phenomenon, entitled Smart Television.

Hackett was also a guest on Jack Paar's last Tonight show in 1962.

Levant was also a frequent guest on Jack Paar's talk show, prompting Paar in later years to sign off by saying, " Good night, Oscar Levant, wherever you are.

Ron Simon, one of the television and radio curators at the Museum, was host and moderator with appearances and speeches by television talk show host Dick Cavett, TCM host Robert Osborne, and Paar's daughter, Randy.

Miriam was a guest on Paar's 1956 – 1957 ABC radio show, with their daughter.

Paar's place was taken by Clint Buehlman, who was recruited from competing station WGR.

The winner on October 1, 1946, was pianist José Melis, who later became a familiar late night television personality as the orchestra leader on Jack Paar's Tonight show.

Bill Maher can be seen in the audience of the first episode ( though he was not an official guest ), and Conan O ' Brien claims he hitchhiked to New York just to see a broadcast in Studio 6A ( which has also been home to some of Jack Paar's NBC programs, later Late Night with David Letterman and finally Late Night with Conan O ' Brien ).

She was a regular guest on television talk shows, especially Jack Paar's, where audiences loved her stories.

One of his routines on Paar's shows was the " telephone game ," in which Melis would improvise a number based on the last four digits of an audience member's telephone number.

He got his big break when Jack Benny, who had been impressed by Paar's U. S. O.

Both of these specials were largely made up of kinescoped clips used at the tribute from " Tonight " and from Paar's prime time program, to which he maintained the copyright.

Paar's health declined in the late 1990s.

In 1959, Arquette accepted Paar's invitation to perform on Paar's NBC Tonight Show.

Gibson made many appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight Show between 1957 and 1962, often reciting his poetry.

Then Paar moved from mornings to late night, and from 1957 to 1962, Melis served as the musical director of The Tonight Show during Jack Paar's tenure as host.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

For 23 years, Rex Barney was the PA announcer for the Orioles.

His sportscasting career started while attending Syracuse University, as an announcer for the Syracuse Blazers minor-league hockey team playing in the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

Upon Mercer's departure, Verne Lundquist joined the network, and became their play-by-play announcer by 1977, serving eight years in that capacity before handing those chores permanently over to Brad Sham, who joined the network in 1977 as the color analyst and occasional fill-in for Lundquist.

His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.

Albert continues to be the lead play-by-play announcer for National Basketball Association games on TNT, a position he assumed in 1999.

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.

Steve Albert is currently the Phoenix Suns play-by-play announcer, and has also called play-by-play for several other teams, including the New Orleans Hornets, New Jersey Nets, New York Islanders, New York Mets, and Golden St. Warriors.

Al Albert was the former play-by-play announcer for USA Tuesday Night Fights, the Indiana Pacers and the Denver Nuggets.

In 1933 – 1934 Kathryn Curtis organized a show, " The Modern Mermaids ," for the World Exhibition in Chicago, which the announcer introduced as " Synchronized Swimming.

Chicago's WGN radio station broadcast the trial with announcer Quin Ryan via clear-channel broadcasts for the first on-the-scene coverage of a criminal trial.

This would be the only ABC Super Bowl for Gifford as play-by-play announcer, the final game for Don Meredith and the second ( and last ) time a commentator for the Super Bowl ( Theismann ) was an active player ( Jack Kemp in Super Bowl II was the only other active player to provide commentary ).

The game was broadcast in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden ( their fifth and final Super Bowl broadcast for CBS ).

The format was the classic mode in which the announcer gave the topic for that day, and listeners called in to debate the issue.

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.

File: Goldchat1. jpg | Gold record for Chattanooga Choo Choo presented to Glenn Miller ( right ), by W. Wallace Early of RCA Victor with announcer Paul Douglas on the left, February, 1942.

The planet's " Empire TV " features regular gladiatorial games, with the announcer urging viewers at home to vote for their favorites, stating, " This is your program.

This portion of the introduction was dropped during the third season, and the announcer would simply claim it was ' time for ... Piiiiiigs ... iiiin ... spaaaaaaace!

The more well known include World Athletics Championships multiple gold medal-winning sprinter Tyson Gay ; former Tates Creek High School and Louisville Cardinals kicker David Akers, who is the all-time scoring leader for the Philadelphia Eagles ; former Louisville Cardinals football player and Cleveland Browns cornerback Frank Minnifield ; Miami Marlins outfielder Austin Kearns ; former Kentucky and Pittsburgh Steelers center Dermontti Dawson ; and NBC Sports announcer Tom Hammond.

He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!