Dominick George "Don" Pardo (born February 22, 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is a legendary American radio and television announcer. Pardo joined NBC as an in-house announcer in 1944 and remained on the network staff for the next 60 years. He was the last of the "lifetime" employees of NBC. His best-known announcing work is for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC (which he gave up after the 1999 telecast) and the television series Saturday Night Live; he has been with the show since it premiered in 1975, except for one season (1981-82), when it was announced by Mel Brandt. is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Nickname: Coordinates: Country United States of America State Massachusetts Counties Hampden County Settled 1660 Incorporated (town) May 19, 1669 Incorporated (city) November 2, 1920 Government  - Mayor Richard K. Sullivan Jr. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Continuity announcer. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Macys Day Parade redirects here. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90 minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... The year 1975 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 1981 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 1982 in television involved some significant events. ... Mel Brandt (born June 18, 1919, Brooklyn, New York) was an actor and NBC staff announcer. ...

Pardo officially "retired" from NBC in 2004 and moved to Tucson. However, the producers of Saturday Night Live convinced him to continue providing the introductions for their show. In 2006, he decided to begin prerecording his announcements from a home studio in Arizona. That lasted only a few episodes before producers insisted they needed him present in Studio 8H, and he resumed flying to New York on a weekly basis to do the show. [1] Nickname: The Old Pueblo Location in Pima County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Pima Mayor Bob Walkup (R) Area    - City 505. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90 minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ... NY redirects here. ...

Prior to Saturday Night Live, Pardo made his mark on game shows for NBC as the booming voice of The Price is Right from 1956 until it moved to ABC in 1963. The next year, he moved over to Jeopardy!, which he announced from 1964 until the original version of the series ended in 1975. Pardo reprised that role with a cameo voiceover in "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1984 song "I Lost on Jeopardy" (a parody of the Greg Kihn Band 1983 hit song "(Our Love's In) Jeopardy"). He also announced numerous other New York-based NBC game shows such as Three on a Match, Winning Streak, and Jackpot! (all three of which were Bob Stewart productions). The Price is Right is a popular game show based on contestants guessing the retail prices of displayed prizes. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1956. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... See also: 1962 in television, other events of 1963, 1964 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1963-64 American network television schedule. ... Jeopardy! is an international television quiz game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin. ... See also: 1963 in television, other events of 1964, 1965 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1964-65 American network television schedule. ... The year 1975 in television involved some significant events. ... Peter Jackson in The Fellowship of the Ring (top), The Two Towers (middle) and The Return of the King (bottom). ... VoiceOver is a feature built into Apple Computers Mac OS X v10. ... This article is about the musician himself. ... See also: 1980s in music. ... I Lost on Jeopardy is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Greg Kihn (born 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a U.S. pop musician. ... See also: 1983 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1983 Record labels established in 1983 // Michael Jacksons Thriller, the most successful album not only of 1983, but of all time, was released in 1982 and began its epic domination of the music charts the following year, 1983. ... Jeopardy is a hit song released in 1983 by the Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. ... Three on a Match was an American television game show, created by Bob Stewart, that ran from August 2, 1971 to June 28, 1974 on the daytime schedule of NBC. The host was Bill Cullen, a veteran host of several successful television games. ... Winning Streak was a short-lived Bob Stewart-produced television game show hosted by Bill Cullen. ... Jackpot! was a television game show seen in three different run from the mid-1970s through 1990. ... There are different people named Bob Stewart: Bob Stewart, a television producer. ...

In addition, Pardo has also been the announcer for WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, and Wheel of Fortune (during special on-location weeks, when the show originated from New York). WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... Live at Five (or Live at 5) is a name used by several television stations in the United States and Canada to refer to their local newscasts or talk shows that air at 5:00 PM. The name was coined by WNBC-TV in New York City in 1980 for... NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NY redirects here. ...

Pardo was the on-duty live booth announcer for WNBC-TV in New York and the NBC network on November 22, 1963, and it was he who first announced to NBC viewers that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. (His first bulletin interrupted a local WNBC-TV broadcast of "Bachelor Father" before the entire NBC network went live with the story.) Because NBC was slow to begin videotaping the assassination coverage, for decades it was believed that Pardo's historic bulletins were lost. However, almost 40 years later an audio tape of the bulletins was discovered in a private collection. WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1962 in television, other events of 1963, 1964 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1963-64 American network television schedule. ... President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Texas Governor John Connally in the presidential limousine just moments before his assassination The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p. ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ...

In December 1976 on one memorable SNL episode, Pardo participated in a musical performance by Frank Zappa, reciting a verse of the song "I'm The Slime." Pardo subsequently reprised this role on the live-recorded version of the song for the Zappa in New York album (it was, however, not featured on the first release in 1978, but it appears on the 1993 CD re-release). He also provided narration for the songs "The Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Punky's Whips" (an ongoing business dispute between Zappa and his then record company led to "Punky's Whips" being removed from the 1978 album, but the song was reinstated on the 1993 CD). See also: 1975 in television, other events of 1976, 1977 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1976-77 American network television schedule. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Zappa in New York is a live album by Frank Zappa. ... See also: 1970s in music. ... See also: 1993 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1993 Record labels established in 1993 // Date Unknown- Christian Rock label Tooth and Nail Records is formed. ...

In 1986, Pardo contributed to the first album in TVT Records' Television's Greatest Hits series of compilations of TV-series theme songs; his voice can be heard opening and closing the album, as if it were a real TV station's broadcast day. TVT Records is an independent record label located in New York City in the United States. ...

Pardo is still heard during the open and close of Len Berman's "Spanning the World" segments on WNBC and Today. During the 1980s and 1990s, Pardo also recorded announcements for radio stations affiliated with The Source programming service [2] (syndicated by Westwood One). Recordings from those days are still used on some programs, such as "Ten At Ten" on KFOG-FM, San Francisco and The Bob and Tom Show. Len Berman on WNBC in 2005. ... Today, commonly referred to as The Today Show to avoid ambiguity, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on the NBC television network. ... Westwood One, Inc. ... KFOG is an FM radio station in San Francisco, California, broadcasting simultaneously on 104. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Bob & Tom Show is a radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1983. ...

External links

• Don Pardo at the Internet Movie Database
• The Illinois Enema Bandit lyrics inc. Don Pardo's contribution
• Punky's Whips lyrics inc. Don Pardo's contribution
• I'm The Slime lyrics inc. Don Pardo's contribution