RIP ROGER MUDD

 Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928 – March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.

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CBS Radio and TV announcer ART HANNES

 ART HANNES was born on July 28, 1922 in Kentucky, USA. Attended St. Bonaventure College, then began his broadcasting career at KMOX-St. Louis, Missouri. He covered the Admiral Byrd Expedition for CBS. In 1947, he became a staff announcer for CBS. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Hannes was an announcer for CBS-Radio programs including Gangbusters; Suspense; You Are There; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Announcer for other CBS-TV programs including Studio One (1948-1958); Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show) on CBS (1949-1964). The only feature movie he appeared in was playing Jenkins in Taxi (1953). He appeared in one TV movie, playing a Mercury Theatre Player in The Night That Panicked America (1975). He died on March 30, 1992 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.