Fred Facey
TV Personality
1930 – 2003
Who was Fred Facey?
Ferdinand A. Facey was an American radio and television announcer.
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. He was perhaps most notable as likely the highest-placed African-American in his profession during his active career. Prior to joining NBC, he had been a freelance announcer in Washington, D.C., the Long Island area and New York City.
In his early years with NBC, Facey mainly did radio work, mostly with its New York flagship station WNBC, and was heard occasionally on live remotes that were heard on the network's annual New Year's Eve radio broadcasts.
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 WNBC-TV's nightly NewsCenter4. He would remain the announcer for the station's newscasts for much of its 1980-1995 run as News 4 New York. In addition, he announced for Live at Five for its first two years on the air, before Don Pardo took over the duties for that show.
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1930
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Apr 13, 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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