TV Booth ... Paul Schultz

In the beginning, the TV booth announcer was a staff position. A voice-over person was in the announce booth whenever a television station was on the air. The live staff announcer would voice any copy that arrived in the booth, live on the air. Everything live -- from news opens to promo tags, even commercial copy over a series of slides.

The industry evolved, and live announce was replaced by tape. Several staff announcer shifts a day were replaced by one, then several voice-over sessions a day replaced by one. Finally the staff announcer position was eliminated, and the voice-over duties were hired out. Initially a local voice talent was used; then advances in technology allowed stations to use out-of-town promotion voices.

Today Paul is the out-of-town promotion voice for several television stations. Paul's broadcasting career began in Chicagoland radio in the seventies. In the eighties he worked for Chicago television stations. Paul was employed at various times as a news promotion voice, a live TV booth voice, and as an on-tape staff announcer.

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Paul  312/491-0112  Fax/491-0115  ISDN/421-0185