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Husing was born in the Bronx, New York, in November 27, 1901. He was the son of Henry Frederick Husing and Bertha Hecht. His immigrant parents moved frequently as his father's jobs as headwaiter and club steward changed.
As a teenager he disappeared twice on unannounced hitchhiking trips to Missouri and Florida, adventures that tested his parents' "abundant love" for him.
Husing received a spotty education in the New York City and suburban public schools of Johnstown and Gloversville, N. Y. Stuyvesant High School suspended him from several athletic teams for scholastic deficiency.
He held numerous short-term jobs. Underage and using an assumed name and false birth certificate, Husing served in the New York National Guard during World War I.
In 1924 Husing joined the infant broadcasting industry as an announcer for the Radio Corporation of America stations WJY-WJZ in New York City. Although only a high school graduate, Husing claimed that he held a degree from Harvard University; such brashness and a superior audition won him the job over 600 other applicants. With WJY-WJZ, which in 1926 became a part of the new National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Husing became one of the pioneers of broadcasting.
He developed his skills while working with such important announcers as Milton Cross, Norman Brokenshire, and Major J. Andrew White. White was particularly influential in shaping Husing's career: he introduced him to sports announcing, the aspect of programming with which he became most identified. His first sports broadcast was the Penn-Cornell football game in November 1925. To better prepare himself for sports announcing, Husing played during the 1920's for the Prescotts, a semiprofessional football team in New York. Two of his teammates, Les Quailey and Jimmy Dolan, later became his play-by-play broadcasting partners. But sports events occupied only part of Husing's varied schedule. In the day prior to narrow specialization in radio Husing was a complete announcer, covering special events and introducing dance bands, among other duties. In 1927 Husing resigned from NBC and worked briefly for stations WBET in Boston and WHN in New York.
On December 25, 1927, he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). Within two years both he and the new network had become established successes, and his role in placing the network on a sound footing was recognized by President William S. Paley. Husing covered aviator Floyd Bennett's funeral, the 1928 and 1932 Democratic conventions, and presidential candidate Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech in California in 1928. He became the network's "name" sports broadcaster, covering polo, tennis, college football (including Army-Navy, Army-Notre Dame), the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the Orange Bowl games, and the 1932 summer Olympic games in Los Angeles. To facilitate their football broadcasts Husing and Quailey developed the electric annunciator. (Quailey, using binoculars to identify player's numbers, pressed buttons on a board that caused lights, corresponding to the player's numbers, to light up on Husing's board. This device allowed Husing to deliver a smooth play-by-play account of the game. ) Husing also participated in prime-time entertainment programming during the late 1920's and early 1930's. He was the announcer on the Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman shows, and played a role in bringing such entertainers as Rudy Vallee, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, and Guy Lombardo to radio.
Blunt and outspoken on the air as well as off, Husing created controversy. When he characterized the performance of Harvard quarterback Barry Wood as "putrid" in the 1931 Dartmouth game, he was banned from the university's sports events for two years. He was prohibited from broadcasting baseball after he criticized the umpires in the 1934 World Series. After quitting CBS in 1946 because of a salary dispute, Husing worked briefly for WCAU in Philadelphia. Later that year he made a major career transition and became a disc jockey for station WHN in New York. "Ted Husing's Bandstand, " which continued into the 1950's, symbolized a format that radio would increasingly rely on in its competition with television. Husing's annual income reached $250, 000, nearly ten times what his salary had been at CBS.
During the late 1940's and early 1950's Husing continued to broadcast sports events, including a season of the professional football Baltimore Colts. Although Husing was a professional success, both he and his associates judged his personal life a failure. In 1954 illness left him partially paralyzed and blinded. He died in Pasadena, Calif.
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He married Helen Gelderman on June 8, 1924. They had one daughter, and were divorced in 1934. Among the "victims of my brashness, discourteousness, and thoughtlessness, " he wrote in his second autobiography, was his first wife. Neglecting his marriage as he obsessively pursued recognition and acclaim, Husing spent more time in New York nightclubs than at home. Husing married Frances Sizer on April 28, 1936, but the marriage lasted only until August of that year. On April 21, 1944, he married Iris Lemerise; they were divorced in 1958. By his third marriage he had one son.
