Wayne Clay Howell Chappelle (February 16, 1921 – July 8, 1993), known professionally as Wayne Howell, was a voice-over

Voice-over

Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...

 announcer

Announcer

An announcer is a presenter who makes "announcements" in an audio medium or a physical location.-Television and other media:Some announcers work in television production , radio or filmmaking, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in...

 for the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 television and radio networks from 1947 through 1986. He was one member of a core group of New York

New York City

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-based announcers including Don Pardo

Don Pardo

Dominick George "Don" Pardo is an American radio and television announcer. He is best known as the voice of the long-running late night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live....

, Bill Wendell

Bill Wendell

Bill Wendell was an NBC television staff announcer for almost his entire professional career.-Biography:...

, Jerry Damon

Jerry Damon

H. Jerome D'Amato , known professionally as Jerry Damon, was an American radio and television announcer and actor.-Biography:Damon was a staff announcer for NBC in New York from 1954 until his death...

, Arthur Gary

Arthur Gary

Arthur James Gary was an American radio and television announcer.A graduate of New York University, Gary's announcing career spanned from 1936 to 1984...

, Vic Roby

Vic Roby

Victor Mills "Vic" Roby, Jr. was a radio and television announcer, voice-over artist and public affairs show host, and served for years as a staff announcer with NBC.-Early life and career:...

, Mel Brandt

Mel Brandt

Melville Brandt was an actor and NBC staff announcer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.Brandt joined the network around 1948. His radio announcing credits included The Adventures of Frank Merriwell, Author Meets the Critics, and The Eternal Light...

 and Howard Reig

Howard Reig

Howard Reig was an American radio and television announcer. His last name was pronounced "reeg."-Personal life:...

 who handled not only introducing and closing programs, but also teaser

Cold open

A cold open in a television program or movie is the technique of jumping directly into a story at the beginning or opening of the show, before the title sequence or opening credits are shown...

s and promotion

Promotion (marketing)

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s for the network's shows.

Howell's radio announcing credits included The Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis were an American comedy team, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis as the comedic "foil". The pair first met in 1945; their debut as a duo occurred at Atlantic City's 500 Club on July 24/25, 1946....

 Show, a 1950s version of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street was a musical variety radio program which began on the Blue Network in 1940. The magazine Radio Life described it as "one of radio's strangest offsprings... a wacky, strictly hep tongue-in-cheek burlesque of opera and symphony."It was a weekly...

, The NBC Radio Theatre, and Monitor

Monitor (NBC Radio)

NBC Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955, until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday...

. Among the television program

Television program

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s he announced on were Broadway Open House

Broadway Open House

Broadway Open House, network television's first late-night comedy-variety series, was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950 to August 24, 1951, airing weeknights from 11pm to midnight...

, Music Bingo, Dotto

Dotto

Dotto is an American television quiz show which aired on CBS from January 6 to August 15, 1958 and was hosted by Jack Narz. Although it quickly became the highest-rated daytime game show on television, its end came when it became the unexpected first casualty – and ignition – of the...

, Say When!!, Match Game

Match Game

Match Game is an American television game show in which contestants attempted to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions...

, Concentration

Concentration (game show)

Concentration was an American TV game show based on the children's memory game of the same name. Matching cards represented prizes that contestants could win...

, Missing Links and Jackpot!

Jackpot (game show)

Jackpot! is a television game show seen in three different runs between 1974 and 1990. Geoff Edwards hosted the original version of this Bob Stewart production from January 7, 1974 until September 26, 1975 on NBC. A second version, produced in Canada, aired from September 30, 1985 to December 30,...

. From 1966 to 1985, he was announcer for the Miss America Pageant

Miss America

The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

. Howell presumably provided voice-overs for numerous other NBC programs during his tenure, often as a substitute for the show's regular announcer.

Among his many assignments for NBC, Howell also appeared regularly as a personality on NBC's New York flagship radio station, WNBC (AM)

WNBC (AM)

WNBC was a radio station that operated in New York City from 1922 to 1988. For most of its history, it was the flagship station of the NBC Radio Network...

, from the 1940s through the mid-1960s.

Following his retirement from NBC, Howell moved to Broward County, Florida

Broward County, Florida

-2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,623,018 people, 654,445 households, and 411,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,346 people per square mile . There were 741,043 housing units at an average density of 615 per square mile...

. He died in Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach, Florida

Pompano Beach ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 99,845...

 at age 72.

External links

• Wayne Howell radio credits