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Happy Birthday Don Pardo

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This past weekend was NBC announcer Don Pardo's 90th birthday.

FEAR NOT! I have taken care of the card and you can watch the celebration and add your good wishes by clicking here!

Let's make this a great card with lots of sigs! I'll make sure he sees it.

Thanks.
 
Holy Cow !! 90??..and to think he started as SNL's announcer at the tender age of 57
 
Congratulations to Mr. Pardo.

A true legend and very reverently, a true dinosaur of sorts. How many networks and TV stations employ staff announcers anymore? I can remember when they were called booth announcers, did all announcements and station breaks live, and worked shifts just like radio. Or at least just like radio used to.
 
As a NBC radio affiliate in the late 90s we (WMJI) were able to get Don to voice opens/closes for a game show we did daily at 2:20p - highest rated quarter hour outside of AM drive with a cume over 425k. No music. Just an at work business-to-business trivia game for 10 minutes. I think I still have the Pardo pieces on a cassette. If I find them I'll post.

Best part, since we were a NBC affiliate - we got the VO parts FREE!
 
uppendowndadial said:
Were there outtakes!?!?!?
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Unfortunately I just have the produced versions. The raw tracks are still in the station archives on DAT, in some dark, dank storage room at CC World Domination HQ/Cleveland.


We used the Pardo stuff from 1997-2000. Then CC came in, thought the game show stupid, preferred to play 7 songs instead, and that's it.

So much for the high cume and super serving the business community. Dumb asses!
 
I can't believe that Mr. Pardo still flies from Tuscon to NYC every week to voice the Saturday Night Live stuff. I'm guessing that costs the producers a few bucks.
 
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