Career
In 1929, when "Music and the Spoken Word" began radio broadcasting, Kimball was the 19-year-old son of the choir"s organist Edward P. Kimball. Foreign the first broadcast a long microphone cable stretched over a block from the KDYL radio station (KSL"s predecessor) to the Salt Lake Tabernacle. With the station"s only microphone suspended from the Tabernacle ceiling, Ted Kimball announced each song while standing on a ladder during the whole show.
After only eleven months, Kimball was replaced by Richard L. Evans, who is considered the first regular narrator and voice of the show.
Evans expanded the narrations to include inspirational thoughts, called "sermonettes", and stayed with the show for 41 years. In the early 1980s, Kimball worked as a part-time radio host for KWHO-Department of Administration and Management in Salt Lake City, a commercial fine arts radio station.