Don Pardo
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Don Pardo (Dominick George Pardo, born February 22, 1918) is a legendary radio and television announcer. Since the 1950s, Pardo has been an in-house announcer for the NBC television network. He and Bob Hope are the only two people to have been offered lifetime contracts by the network. His best known announcing work is for the television series Saturday Night Live and he has been with the show since it premiered in 1975, except for a brief period in the early 1980s.
In addition to his work on NBC, Pardo has also been the announcer for WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, Jeopardy!, The Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune (as a sub announcer), and other game shows.