{"id":52572,"date":"2014-08-19T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=52572"},"modified":"2014-08-19T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:50:57","slug":"announcer-don-pardo-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=52572","title":{"rendered":"Announcer Don Pardo passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pardodon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52593\" alt=\"pardodon2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pardodon2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pardodon2-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pardodon2-233x175.jpg 233w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pardodon2.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By FRAZIER MOORE<br \/>\n\u00a0AP Television Writer<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Announcer Don Pardo, whose booming baritone was known to fans of &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; &#8221;The Price is Right&#8221; and other programs, has died. He was 96.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pardo&#8217;s daughter, Dona Pardo, says her father died Monday afternoon at his home in Tucson, Arizona. She says he moved to Tucson after retiring from &#8220;SNL&#8221; in 2006.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For decades, Pardo&#8217;s majestic voice graced game shows and television programs. During shows such as the original version of &#8220;Jeopardy!,&#8221; his answers to the question, &#8220;Tell &#8217;em what they&#8217;ve won, Don Pardo,&#8221; became a memorable part of the program.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And though rarely seen, he was an integral part of &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; for more than three decades in his role of introducing the cast to kick off each show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FRAZIER MOORE \u00a0AP Television Writer \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Announcer Don Pardo, whose booming baritone was known to fans of &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; &#8221;The Price is Right&#8221; and other programs, has died. He was 96. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pardo&#8217;s daughter, Dona Pardo, says her father died Monday afternoon at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52595,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572\/revisions\/52595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}