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Don Pardo: Summary

Recent Role:: Announcer on Saturday Night Live

Birthday:: 2-22-1918

Birthplace:: Westfield, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name:: Dominick George Pardo

Don Pardo is a legendary radio and television announcer. Since the 1950s, Pardo has been an in-house announcer for the NBC television network. He, Milton Berle, and Bob Hope are the only three people to have been offered lifetime contracts by the network. His best known announcing work is for the television series Saturday Night Live; he has been with the show since it premiered in 1975, except...

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He was the announcer for WNBC-TV and NBC on November 22nd, 1963 and he announced that President Kennedy had been shot.(edit)
He was the announcer for the very first game show on NBC called "Remeber This Date".(edit)
His voice is heard during the open and close of Len Berman's "Spanning the World" segments on WNBC and Today. His close goes as follows: "Tune in next time for "Spanning the World"...if there is a next time."(edit)
Pardo is the announcer of "Ten At Ten", a daily radio show on KFOG FM, San Francisco.(edit)
Pardo has been the announcer for Wheel of Fortune (during special on-location weeks, when the show originated in New York).(edit)