# Best radio announcer of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Radio and Digital\ **Created:** [January 14, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414 "2017-01-14T00:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/1 "2017-01-14T00:27:00Z")
Doug Mulray was big in his day… They reckon you could look across the harbor bridge and see car after car of people laughing when he’d crack a joke… And that’s the great thing about an announcer and not just some comedian recruited to be on air talent… announcers know the true power of radio… So who’s been the best you’ve regularly listened to? In recent years for me it was Iain Lee… he was completely unpredictable on Absolute… But of all time… Gotta like Elvis Duran… he’s truly amazing… But no one beats Michael Scott Shannon… the greatest ever in the history of radio… ---
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/2 "2017-01-14T00:32:23Z")
No one else makes people lose control quite like him (4:08) ---
**Author:** ![Awabakal](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Awabakal](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Awabakal)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/3 "2017-01-14T04:41:38Z")
Broadway Bill Lee on WCBS New York. No one comes close ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/4 "2017-01-14T09:00:31Z")
> [@anon21817333](#): > > So who’s been the best you’ve regularly listened to? Doug Mulray Andrew Denton (with Amanda Keller) Merrick and Rosso Fitzy and Wippa ---
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/5 "2017-01-22T05:49:01Z")
Of the US announces I have heard in Australia - Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack. ---
**Author:** ![WATV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@WATV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/WATV)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/6 "2017-01-22T07:23:02Z")
Some of my favourites from Perth Going back to the 70’s to know John burgess (6pm) Lionel Yorke (6pm 6ix) Brian Lehman (6ix, pmfm,6ix) Ted Bull (6wf,6ix,6pr) Gordon O’byrne ( 6pm,96fm,6ix) Late Alan Robertson ( 6ix) Dean Clairs (pmfm,mix94.5) Bob Stuart (96fm,mix94.5) Fred Botica (96fm,mix94.5,96fm) ---
**Author:** ![nzwarrior51](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@nzwarrior51](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/nzwarrior51)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/7 "2017-01-22T07:45:45Z")
Depends if you’re speaking in music or talkback terms, if I were to say of today (music) I’d say Dave Williams in Melbourne. Glenn “Minty” Mintern is very good and Adrian “AJ” Johnston too. Listen to Bob Peters on 2GO at the moment sounds very good. But now days it’s more than just announcing it’s about communication all the time with your audience and Minty is the best with that. ---
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/8 "2017-01-25T20:40:31Z")
And then of course there’s the father of brotherly love… ---
**Author:** ![Adrian](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@Adrian](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Adrian)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/9 "2017-05-24T11:21:24Z")
Brendan Barnes 96.9 sun fm from the 90’s ---
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/10 "2018-02-11T02:53:30Z")
Love that alliteration… Like Blake Bortles… great name. ---
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/11 "2018-02-11T02:54:17Z")
Fred Botica was a freaking legend… I remember him on 1XX! ---
**Author:** ![anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@anon21817333](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/anon21817333)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/12 "2018-04-15T03:56:23Z")
Chris Tarrant was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Adrian](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@Adrian](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Adrian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/13 "2018-04-15T10:09:03Z")
Barry Bissell ---
**Author:** ![crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/crankymedia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/14 "2018-04-15T15:12:52Z")
Talkback: there is only one John Laws. Yes, Neil Mitchell or Burns & Stevenson are successful as are Jones & Hadley, but no one has had national success like John Laws. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Aliheim](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/alex_aliheim/32/288268_2.png) [@Alex\_Aliheim](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Alex_Aliheim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/15 "2022-11-06T07:07:15Z")
Grab your stemetil > [@crankymedia](#): > > Yes ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/7/a/3/7a3ed90d274d46147b15913986a1053e9e778cfc.jpeg) > [@crankymedia](#): > > Talkback: there is only one John Laws. Well yeah now there is… but I much more preferred this fella ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/8/3/a/83acdce8f1d852f38130dcc29ad0370c8084eb55.jpeg) There has been no one quite like the beast since his passing, he is very much a missed shock jock in my eyes ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/d/b/1/db1720db11f5239c07407bea4f761adcac6307b0.jpeg) I had a whole bunch a Stan Zemanek CDs… be dammed if I can find them. ---
**Author:** ![shanosV8](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/shanosv8/32/411446_2.png) [@shanosV8](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/shanosV8)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/16 "2022-11-06T09:04:56Z")
From my Sydney perspective: Humour/Fun : Ric Melbourne Music jock : Ron E Sparks Talk/Opinion: Alan Belford Jones Stayer of all time : John Laws ---
**Author:** ![NuStraya](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/nustraya/32/369694_2.png) [@NuStraya](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/NuStraya)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/17 "2022-11-06T22:04:35Z")
Probably his best call: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-C6IZh9AeCM/hqdefault.jpg "Stan Zemanek V's Another Brain Dead Dope Smoking Twit") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6IZh9AeCM) ---
**Author:** ![crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/crankymedia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/18 "2022-11-06T22:11:48Z")
> [@NuStraya](#): > > Probably his best call Could be, though I enjoyed the calls with voice actors, males pretending to be females, they were hilarious. At school, there were two camps of night time audiences, those who listened to music countdowns & those who listened to Stan Zemanek. He was great entertainment, especially best ofs out of the 10 and 11pm news. ---
**Author:** ![1323ZM](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/1323zm/32/436633_2.png) [@1323ZM](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/1323ZM)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/best-radio-announcer-of-all-time/2414/20 "2024-12-15T11:58:52Z")
After chatting to @Radiohead about his DXing today, listening to Casey Casem, I better mention the best _voice_ of all time: **Shadoe Stevens** A true on-air talent too. Great vibe, lots of charisma. But more than anything else. Best voice on radio.