Spoiler : Hal Gibney (Harold T. Gibney) Born Woodland, California (grew up in Alameda), August 26, 1911 Died near Santa Barbara, California, June 5, 1973 Age 61 Best remembered on radio for Tales of the Texas Rangers, the Six-Shooter, and Dragnet (on which he was announcer #2), his career started on station KTAB (now KSFO) in 1935 as a local announcer. He was in other stations in San Francisco, then Portland, Oregon, then back to San Francisco. In 1939 he moved to Los Angeles and was a staff announcer for NBC at Radio City West in Hollywood. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and after basic training was sent to Santa Ana, California, to work as a radio announcer on shows that were heard around the nation on commercial networks and around the world on AFRS. Some the shows he announced at that time included Hello Mom, Wings to Victory, Uncle Sam Presents, Front and Center, Wings Over the West Coast. Discharged in 1946 he continued radio announcing until 1955, when ABC got him to announce the Mickey Mouse Club on TV. His OTHER civilian radio shows also included Hawthorne House, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, the Standard Symphony, the Best of the Week, Jimmy Fidler, Charlie Lung, NBC University Theater, Screen Directors' Playhouse, Pat Novak, the Man Called X, and Penny Singleton.

Spoiler : Gibney, Hal (birth name was Harold T. Gibney) Born in Woodland, California 8/26/1911; died in 6/1973 at Fillmore, California. Gibney began his announcing career at KSFO and KTAB in San Francisco, KGW-Portland, Oregon, then for the NBC Network in 1936.

Spoiler : Radio and television announcer for programs including Roosty Of The AAF on Mutual (1944-1945); Let's Laugh And Get Acquainted on NBC (1946); Dragnet on NBC (1949-1955); NBC-TV (1951-1959); Tales Of The Texas Rangers on NBC (1950-1952); The Six Shooter on NBC (1953).