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Johnny Jacobs
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Radio Jacobs was the announcer for The Steve Allen Show on Columbia Broadcasting System in 1950. The program was a summer replacement for Our Mission Brooks, which had starred Eve Arden. In 1955, he was the announcer for the Gary Crosby Show on Columbia Broadcasting System. He was the first announcer for The Joker"s Wild, which starred Jack Barry and debuted on Columbia Broadcasting System in 1972.
Barry employed Jacobs to announce many such Jack Barry/Barry & Enright Productions game shows during the early to middle 1970s as Blank Check, the 1976 American Broadcasting Company run of Break The Bank, and Hollywood"s Talking for Columbia Broadcasting System. Most notably, however, Chuck Barris employed Jacobs"s voice talents on the aforementioned The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game, and also for other such Barris productions as Three"s a Crowd and The Gong Show.
His last job was announcing a Barris-produced version of Treasure Hunt which was syndicated during the 1981-1982 season. (Jacobs had also announced Barris"s middle 1970s version of Treasure Hunt as well) However, illness forced him to step down from this version of Treasure Hunt by late 1981, and he was replaced by frequent Barris fill-in announcer Tony McClay.
Jacobs died in Stockton, California, where he owned radio station KWG, at the age of 65.
