Harold Arlin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold Arlin

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1895

Place of Birth: La Harpe, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 14-Mar-1986

Profession: sports commentator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Harold Wampler Arlin (December 8, 1895–March 14, 1986) was an American engineer and foreman and was arguably the world's first full-time and salaried announcer in broadcast radio.Arlin originally worked as an engineer and later foreman for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company when he was hired as a part-time announcer by KDKA, the nation's first commercially licensed radio station, in Pittsburgh in 1920.
On November 2, 1920, Arlin made history as the radio's first announcer when he read over-the-air the returns to the 1920 presidential election between Senator Warren G.
Harding and Governor James M.
Cox. Arlin was soon hired full-time at KDKA.
During his tenure at KDKA, Arlin became the first to announce radio broadcasts of a baseball game (August 5, 1921), tennis match (August 6, 1921), football game (October 8, 1921), and a boxing match (September 14, 1923).Arlin also interviewed many celebrities on the air, including Babe Ruth, Will Rogers, Lillian Gish and William Jennings Bryan.
He spent five years at KDKA, where he was nicknamed the "Voice of America".
Listeners on several continents could hear KDKA and Arlin's broadcasts, and The London Times called him "the best known American voice in Europe".