Fred Facey

Ferdinand A. Facey

television announcer

.

Career

Facey joined the announcing staff of NBC in New York City in 1967, and remained with the network for the rest of his life. In time, he would join the likes of Don Pardo and Howard Reig in holding lifetime contracts with the network. Prior to joining NBC, he had been a freelance announcer in Washington, D.C., the Long Island area and New York City.^[1]

In his early years with NBC, Facey mainly did radio work, mostly with its New York

WNBC (AM), and was heard occasionally on live remotes that were heard on the network's annual New Year's Eve radio broadcasts.^[3]

By the mid-1970s or so, Facey began working on the television side, first as a booth announcer on promotional spots and bumpers. Starting in 1979, he introduced

Live at Five

for its first two years on the air, before Don Pardo took over the duties for that show.

It was also in that period that Facey and Howard Reig became the main voices of

political conventions and space shuttle

launches and landings.

Besides his news work, his voice was also heard on promos for such programs as Saturday Night Live and Last Call with Carson Daly.