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What your favourite radio imaging guy or gal?

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Mido3737

With so many people doing radio imagery which ones are your favourites and why?

A couple I do like is John Wells with that deep voice and he’s done loads work in Europe in 90s onwards on BBC Radio 1 in Uk and 2fm in Ireland.

Another who gets loads work Harry Legg all over Europe on mainly hit music stations.

Over to you for your favourite for liners and imaging.
 
Expanding from not only radio but to TV as well, one of my favorites has long been Bill St. James. His voice is instantly recognizable and could be heard on everything from his radio programs like Flashback! and Time Warp to promos and V/O work for cable networks like Nickelodeon and Discovery to NBC's coverage of at least 3 Olympic games and I believe he also has a Super Bowl under his belt as well.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Expanding from not only radio but to TV as well, one of my favorites has long been Bill St. James. His voice is instantly recognizable and could be heard on everything from his radio programs like Flashback! and Time Warp to promos and V/O work for cable networks like Nickelodeon and Discovery to NBC's coverage of at least 3 Olympic games and I believe he also has a Super Bowl under his belt as well.
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Thank you for sharing Bill voice is unique and is a joy to hear .
 
After CVD, I’ve always liked Earl Mann. Haven’t heard him around lately outside of Awesome 99.5 in Greenville/Spartanburg and 105.9 Sunny FM in Orlando. Used to be the voice for CBS FM, WOGL, WJMK, and a lot of other big market classic hits stations.
 
You can't beat the booming voice of Waldemaro Martinez, who does voices for many Spanish-languagw stations, but most notably New York's WSKQ.
 
WMAL (DC) recently changed their imaging to slogans like, "making sense of the news," and "news now, " voiced by a woman with the most flat and uninspiring delivery I've ever heard. What's with that?
 
I don't hear him much anymore, but I've always absolutely loved the voiceover work of Bill St. James. All the years he was the voice of Nick at Nite and Showtime were great, and I miss him on NBC Sports. The original Flashback classic rock show was groundbreaking and a production masterpiece, and I still listen to his current syndicated classic rock show, Time Warp, which has some of the most well done production work I have ever heard, but I'm convinced the Time Warp shows are just recycled content at this point and he's not recording new shows anymore.
 
I haven't heard him lately but the man who used to say "98.7 Simon. We play everything" for a Greensboro NC station. He might still be there but I just haven't heard him. Not just his voice, but his silly comments.
 
This format was in almost every medium and major market 10-15 years ago. They usually had the same guy doing the liners. Common station name was “Bob” but sometimes “Jack” and others. They still exist in some markets but my perception is many have been disappearing.
 
I love Howard Cogan's little liners in between songs on JACK stations, but lately, he has been replaced by the unnamed v/o guy who has done the GEICO commercials for 25 years ('15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more...') Boo! I was in Wenatchee last week where Jack FM is available on 94.3 (satellite-fed) and every time I hear a liner, whether it's generic or it has to do with a current trend, I instantly think: Geico.

For TV, I'd say Al Vanik, but he's (mostly) retired now (I think?) Growing up, you knew the news on KOMO was coming on when his booming voice came on the airwaves..."FIRST 4 LOCAL NEWS!"
The late Chris Corley also comes to mind. Very serious announcer, well-missed. And Don LaFontaine with those movie trailers...
 
crainbebo said:
I love Howard Cogan's little liners in between songs on JACK stations, but lately, he has been replaced by the unnamed v/o guy who has done the GEICO commercials for 25 years
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Agreed 100%. I listen to 1027 Jack FM out of Baltimore quite a bit, and it's split between Howard Cogan and the Geico guy. I prefer the Howard Cogan liners every time.
 
seatownmedia said:
Charlie Van Dyke is very good. On radio for sure, but really owns the news opens. This is from YouTube...

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However in Los Angeles he is also notable for radio like he actually hosted shows on KHJ and KRTH. Note Charlie Van Dyke also did shows for WRKO, KLIF, WLS and KFRC too. I knew Charlie Van Dyke was also a VO for KIOI San Francisco.

 
I like Paul Dickson. I've heard him in multiple formats but I worked directly with him when I was afternoon drive/production director for a country station in PA. I would give him copy, tell him the mood/mental image i was going for with promo or piece of imaging, what kinda sound effects or background music i was thinking and anything else that was on my mind for the particular and he always, always came back with something 10x better than I imagined.

We used him for imaging and contest promos. Our imaging was never snarky, like Jack FM type stuff.. but sometimes it was a little bit of self depricating humor or poking fun and he nailed it.
 
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