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The Surviving Boss Jocks from KHJ

Mikey Radio said:
Not to sidetrack your thread @michael hagerty but I note a lot of well-known TV and movie voice artists came from the LA radio scene from back in the day. Mark Elliott who you mentioned was with Disney for years and though not everyone knows his face or name, most everyone knows his voice very well (actually there's a YouTube video where he described an appearance he made at a college event I believe after he'd retired from Disney. He took the mic, introduced himself and then went into his Disney shtick and launched into teaser annoucements he'd done for The Lion King or one of the other bigger releases and the audience immediately recognized his voice and went berserk). Charlie O'Donnell who was the long-time, well-known announcer on Wheel of Fortune was also on LA radio.

Question is, back in the day did the LA-based movie studios or TV producers hear these guys on the radio, and after hearing their voices say "That's our guy!" and grab them for their V/O or announcing work?
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Mark Elliott other non Disney Work included the beginning years at Fox. In this case he does a promo for 21 Jump Street.
 
Another KHJ jock gone, though this one is from after the "Boss" years. Billy Pearl, who did evenings from September of 1974 to August of 1975, died this week of esophageal cancer. He was 71. Mark Elliott was part of the air staff in 1975, so Pearl's not the first of this era to pass, but Mark was also ten years older.

Billy was an L.A. native who began at a couple of smaller Orange County stations, worked in Palmdale, then hit the majors at KKDJ. He left to join Bill Drake, Robert W. Morgan and The Real Don Steele at K-100 in December of 1973 and then went to KHJ.

After KHJ, he and business partner Tom Greenliegh programmed KRLA, and beat KHJ in the winter 1976/77 book. He and Greenleigh tried to make the same magic programming KIQQ in 1977 (after Bill Drake's contract ended), but it didn't work.

Billy earned his JD, practiced law, and went back on the radio as Bill Pearl, doing talk at KMPC and KABC.
 
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