Bob Hite (announcer)

Bob Hite, Sr. (February 9, 1914 in Decatur, Indiana – February 18, 2000 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American radio and television announcer, voice-over artist, and news anchor.

Biography

Hite began his announcing career in the 1930s at

The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, The Shadow, and Challenge of the Yukon.^[1]

In 1944, Hite joined the

short films for RKO Pictures, including one of Stanley Kubrick's early works, Flying Padre

.

Bob Hite announced the opening

bumper for CBS's color programs starting in 1966, replacing fellow staff announcer Hal Simms who had voiced the same bumper the year before. But his most famous television credit was as the announcer for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

beginning in 1971, and continuing until his retirement from the network in 1979.

Hite died at a Hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida at age 86.

His son, Bob Hite, Jr., was senior anchor at WFLA-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida from 1977 until his retirement in November 2007. One of his three daughters, Cindy Hite, also worked in radio news and is now a radio host at Legends Radio 100.3 FM in Palm Beach County, FL.

Notes

^ "Bob Hite Sr.; Announcer Introduced 'Lone Ranger'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-07.

References

Obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times, February 20, 2000.
TV Guide (New York-Metropolitan Edition), May 21–27, 1960.

External links

Bob Hite at
IMDb
Bob Hite radio credits
Video clip of 1966 CBS color bumper on
YouTube
, voiced by Bob Hite (YouTube clip)

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[1] "Bob Hite Sr.; Announcer Introduced 'Lone Ranger'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-07.

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