Edward B. "Ted" Kimball was a professional radio host in the Salt Lake City region. He was the first announcer of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...

 broadcast "Music and the Spoken Word

Music and the Spoken Word

Music and the Spoken Word is a weekly 30-minute radio and television program of inspiring messages and music produced by Bonneville Communications with music performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir .The radio program is distributed by the CBS Radio Network and its broadcast center is KSL...

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In 1929, when "Music and the Spoken Word" began radio broadcasting, Kimball was the 19-year-old son of the choir's organist Edward P. Kimball

Edward P. Kimball

Edward P. Kimball was an American organist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and a Latter-day Saint hymn writer.In 1898 Kimball was appointed music teacher at the Beaver Branch of Brigham Young Academy...

. For the first broadcast a long microphone cable stretched over a block from the KDYL radio station (KSL's predecessor) to the Salt Lake Tabernacle

Salt Lake Tabernacle

The Salt Lake Tabernacle, also known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah along with the Salt Lake Assembly Hall and Salt Lake Temple.-History:...

. With the station's only microphone suspended from the Tabernacle ceiling, Ted Kimball announced each song while standing on a ladder during the whole show. After only eleven months, Kimball was replaced by Richard L. Evans

Richard L. Evans

Richard Louis Evans was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , the president of Rotary International , and the writer, producer, and announcer of Music and the Spoken Word for forty-one years .He received a BA and MA from the University...

, who is considered the first regular narrator and voice of the show. Evans expanded the narrations to include inspirational thoughts, called "sermonettes", and stayed with the show for 41 years.

In the early 1980s, Kimball worked as a part time radio host for KWHO

KWHO

KROW is an American radio station licensed to serve Cody, Wyoming, USA. The station, established in 2010, is owned and operated by White Park Broadcasting, Inc. KROW broadcasts an active rock music format.-History:...

-AM in Salt Lake City, a commercial fine arts radio station.