- Ted Mallie
Theodore A. (Ted) Mallie (b.
June 3 ,1924 , Brooklyn, New York – d.January 25 ,1999 ) [ [http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?letter=y&lastname=MALLIE&firstname=THEODORE&ssn=082-18-3891&birth=03+Jun+1924&death=25+Jan+1999&middlename=A&namesiffix= Social Security Death Index] ] was an Americanradio andtelevision announcer .Mallie started at WOR-Mutual Radio in New York in the mid-1940s. There he announced on such programs as "John Steele, Adventurer" and "
I Love a Mystery ". He is perhaps better-known toold-time radio buffs, however, as the final announcer for "The Shadow " during its last two seasons (1953–1954) on the air.Following the end of WOR's affiliation with Mutual in 1959, Mallie remained with the station as announcer, handling such duties for, and occasionally serving as newsman on, the
Long John Nebel andJean Shepherd shows. After WOR's FM outlet (nowWRKS-FM ) launched itsprogressive rock format onJuly 30 ,1966 , he even served a spell as adisc jockey for a time, due to a strike by its regular disc jockeys that lasted until October of that year.Not long afterward, Mallie gravitated towards the station's TV outlet (now
WWOR-TV ), where he handledstation identification s, promos, bumpers and program introductions, most notably for their long-running "Million Dollar Movie" and horror-movie series "Fright Night". By the time Channel 9 moved its studios toSecaucus, New Jersey in 1986, three years after they transferred theircity of license there, he andPhil Tonken were the last of the WOR radio announcers from the old-time radio era to still be employed at the station. His last major announcing duties for channel 9 included handlingvoice-over s for the children's show "Steampipe Alley ", and announcing for "The Richard Bey Show". Mallie's announcing career at WWOR ended in 1994. He died in 1999 at age 74.Mallie was also
narrator of thespoken word record album "The Eisenhower Story", a documentary of the life and career of PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower , that was issued on the ABC-Paramount label in 1956.References and external links
* Obituary in
Broadcasting & Cable , February 8, 1999.
* [http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p3.cgi?ArtistName=Mallie,+Ted&ArtistNumber=36554 A partial list of Ted Mallie's radio announcing credits]
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