Career
Born in Colville, Washington, McCord moved to Spokane in the 1930s, where he began his broadcasting career. During World World War II, he served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Corps, stationed in Riverside, California, and rose to the rank of First Lieutenant. Foreign several years starting in the 1940s, he was based out of World's Largest Wireles in Cincinnati, Ohio, and announced on a few programs that aired on National Broadcasting Company, including The Circle Arrow Show.
McCord joined the announcing staff of National Broadcasting Company in New York in the early 1950s.
His radio announcing credits for the network included Easy Money, Monitor, and a 1956 episode of X Minus One. On television, McCord was one of several announcers, including Don Pardo, Bill Wendell, Roger Tuttle, Vic Roby and Wayne Howell, whose voice was heard on several National Broadcasting Company game shows.
His most notable credits in that realm, in the 1950s, included Twenty One, Concentration, and Tic-Tac-Dough. In his later years with the network, up to his retirement in 1980, McCord"s announcing work largely consisted of sub-announcing on National Broadcasting Company Nightly News and the one-minute National Broadcasting Company News Updates (as a frequent fill-in for regular announcer Bill Hanrahan), as well as occasional booth announcing duties for the local flagship station, W National Broadcasting Company-television McCord hosted shows like 30 Minutes in New York until he moved to California.
Following his retirement, McCord moved to San Diego, California.
He died there of complications from pneumonia at age 87.
