Career
Hanrahan"s broadcasting career dated back to the 1940s, when he worked at WELI radio in New Haven, Connecticut, and later went to WNHC radio (now WYBC) where he was a newscaster. By 1950, he had joined the announcing staff of National Broadcasting Company in New New York Hanrahan"s early television credits include The National King Cole Show, for which he was one of the announcers during its short-lived 1956-1957 run.
He also did a few other entertainment-based shows over the years, including two December episodes of Saturday Night Live in 1981 (the December 5 episode with host Tim Curry and musical guest Meat Loaf and the December 12 episode with host Bill Murray and musical guests The Spinners and The Yale Whiffenpoofs) on which he substituted for Mel Brandt (who was hired to be an announcer for that season following the brief departure of Don Pardo).
But Hanrahan"s biggest claim to fame was as announcer for numerous National Broadcasting Company News programs, including the Huntley-Brinkley Report and its successor, National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, up until his retirement in 1983. Hanrahan died on August 7, 1996 in Fairfield, Connecticut, at the age of 77.
