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Profile of Graham McNamee
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Graham McNamee |
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10th July 1888 |
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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Graham McNamee (July 10, 1888 - May 9, 1942) was a pioneering broadcaster in American radio, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first commercial decade.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, McNamee had early aspirations of being an opera singer. In 1923, while serving jury duty in New York City, he passed the studios of radio station WEAF en route to the courthouse and, on a whim, went to see the station manager. He was given an audition and hired as a staff announcer on the spot.
At WEAF McNamee performed a variety of on-air duties, culminating in doing play-by-play of the 1923 World Series. Over the course of the next decade, first with WEAF and then with the national NBC network, McNamee would broadcast numerous sports events (including several World Series, Rose Bowls, and championship boxing matches), national political conventions, and the arrival of aviator Charles Lindbergh in Paris following his historic transatlantic flight in 1927.
McNamee's stature waned in the 1930s, but he continued to broadcast, most notably as a narrator of newsreels and as the announcer for Ed Wynn's and Rudy Vallee's weekly programs. He ended every broadcast with a distinctive catchphrase: "This is Graham McNamee speaking. Goodnight, all."
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