Johnny Donovan

Who is Johnny Donovan?

Johnny Donovan is an American radio announcer and producer at New York's WABC.

He grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, nicknamed "Sarge," after his father's former rank in the United States Army. A radio enthusiast from an early age, he became a DJ on WHVW in nearby Hyde Park, after helping build the station. He went on to stations in Kingston and Binghamton, New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey before landing in New York, first at WOR-FM, and finally at WABC, where he followed Dan Ingram on the air.

Donovan stayed on as production director/announcer when WABC changed to a talk format in 1982. He is still heard internationally as the "voice" of Rush Limbaugh's syndicated show, for which WABC was the flagship station from 1988 until the end of 2013; it currently airs on WOR.

With the assistance of Peter Kanze, Rob Frankel and Allan Sniffen, he produced the annual, now defunct, WABC Rewound program each Memorial Day.