'Listen, radio is defined as theatre of mind,' are
the words that inspired Ted Williams to become a radio announcer.
The Columbus Dispatch discovered the man along Ohio’s I-71 claiming to have “the God-given gift of voice.”
His name is Ted Williams. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York and when he was 14 years old he listened to one of the area announcers on the radio. He decided to meet the announcer on a field trip one day and stated that “he looked nothing like what he sounded like.”
When Williams asked the announcer about this, the announcer told him, “Listen, radio is defined as theatre of mind.”
Inspired, Williams decided that he wanted to be a radio announcer.
“I can’t be an actor, I can’t be an on-air personality but the voice just became something of a development over the years and I went to school for it,” Williams said.
Falling on hard times, Williams told the Dispatch about his struggles with “alcohol and drugs and a few other things,” but that he is currently two years clean. He hopes that “someone from one of these television or radio stations” can say “hey, I need a voice over” and give him a job.
We wish you all the luck in the world, Ted.