John Condon

Condon was one of the original five staff announcers at KNXT in 1951. He was the opening voice for KNXT's "The Big News," which was the first 45-minute long television news broadcast in the nation, introduced in 1961 (and also the launchpad for L.A. newscaster Jerry Dunphy). When "The Big News" eventually gave way to regular hour long news broadcasts at 5 and 6 p.m., Condon was often the introductory voice for these broadcasts; toward the end of his career, in the mid-1980s, his was almost the sole voice heard kicking off the KCBS News on any given night.