devonhart Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 A young Ron Stone, Steve Edwards, and Joanne King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 kool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retama Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 My father knew Harry Kalas when he did UH football games on the radio. I had forgotten he did the sports on 11 in those days too. You can still hear his voice on NFL highlight tapes into the 1990s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 My father knew Harry Kalas when he did UH football games on the radio. I had forgotten he did the sports on 11 in those days too. You can still hear his voice on NFL highlight tapes into the 1990s.Harry Kalas had a career most radio play-by-play announcers can only dream of. For a long time he was the #2 man on the Houston Astros radio and TV broadcast team, with Gene Elston and Loel Passe. Until 1969.That was the year Astros Publicity Manager Bill Giles moved to Philadelphia for a major move up. Giles' father -- National League President Warren Giles -- was about to retire, but on his way out the door, he persuaded the Phillies to hire his son Bill to be General Manager of the Phillies.Two years later in 1971 Kalas's Astros contract came up for renewal, but Giles made him a better offer and hired him to lead the Phillies broadcast team. The rest is history.Philadelphia is also the home of NFL Films, so Harry was a natural for doing many NFL films voice-over narrations, behind "The Voice of God" John Facenda. Harry moved into the first chair at NFL films when Facenda died in 1984.Yes indeed. Harry was one of the great ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Sid Lasher.. I'd forgot all about that guy. Been so long.. I still remember the night he died right before the newscast was about to start. I was thinking it was probably about 1970-71, and a quick search showed it to be in 1971.. 40 years ago.. Note how primitive the weather map was back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Sid Lasher.. I'd forgot all about that guy. Been so long..I still remember the night he died right before the newscastwas about to start. I was thinking it was probably about 1970-71,and a quick search showed it to be in 1971.. 40 years ago.Sid Lasher was one of the most popular TV personalities Houston has ever had. He wasn't a meteorologist. Never pretended to be one. He just explained the weather and the forecast in words we ordinary folk could understand. His warm and cordial on-air style endeared him to everybody. He died one night in 1971 between the 6pm and 10pm news.Ron Stone told me an interesting story about the guy who replaced Lasher. Stone was anchoring at KHOU then, and a guy named Jerry Dale was Lasher's backup and weekend weather guy. When Lasher died, Dale was promoted into the full time weather job. Stone told me that Dale really loved Lasher as a friend and father-figure, and he was so grief-stricken by his death he had a "nervous breakdown." Today we call that a "deep depression." Worse, Dale believed with all his heart that Lasher's spirit was still roaming the halls and studios at KHOU. He ended up leaving KHOU not very long after that, and I heard from one source at the time that he went into therapy. But that story has been debunked, so I have no idea where Dale went or what happened to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toadfroggy Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I'm so glad you guys remember Sid dying right before air time one evening. I remember that, too, but I was afraid my memory was a bit creative. Was Sid the one that was known for "ta-da-da-dum-ta-dum Presidio, Texas!" when announcing the hottest spot on the map or was that someone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urban Commando Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 I had thought Sid Lasher died around '74. I do remember watching a distraught Ron Stone make the announcement and that it had happened in studio just before on-air 10PM. They cut to a picture of Sid Lasher and then went straight to the Late Show movie. A long time ago, but I still remember it clearly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Was Sid the one that was known for "ta-da-da-dum-ta-dum Presidio, Texas!" when announcing the hottest spot on the map or was that someone else? Yep, that was him.. According to what I found when I did the search to verify the date,that happened not long before the 10 PM news was to come on. One source said he wasout in the hallway.. They said Ron Stone came on to give the announcement, and then they cutto a three stooges cartoon.. I'm not sure if that's right or not... Seems to be aweird choice of programming to put on right after announcing something like that.But maybe that's all they had ready to go at that moment to fill the air.. ??I also ran across another obit about his wife. She died just this year. I think Feb 2011,or thereabouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Stone was anchoring at KHOU then, and a guy named Jerry Dale was Lasher's backup and weekend weather guy. When Lasher died, Dale was promoted into the full time weather job. /quote]They show him in that video. They said he was the "voice" of KHOU, which I assumemeans he was probably the one that announced the station ID's, etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Sid Lasher.. I'd forgot all about that guy. Strangely, I have no recollection of Sid, I remember Steve Edwards even though I had no interest in sports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They show him in that video. They said he was the "voice" of KHOU, which I assumemeans he was probably the one that announced the station ID's, etc..Jerry Dale was indeed "the voice" of KHOU. He had the job known then as "booth announcer." He sat in a small closet-sized booth in the TV control room where he voiced station breaks and other "live" copy. Jerry was also the designated substitute as needed for Sid Lasher, and he often did the weather himself on weekends. I don't think TV stations use a "live" booth announcer anymore. Everything is now computerized, and all the station breaks are prerecorded into sound files which the master computer plays on the air at the programmed time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine LaBorde Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 On 7/23/2011 at 12:53 PM, toadfroggy said: I'm so glad you guys remember Sid dying right before air time one evening. I remember that, too, but I was afraid my memory was a bit creative. Was Sid the one that was known for "ta-da-da-dum-ta-dum Presidio, Texas!" when announcing the hottest spot on the map or was that someone else? Yes, that was Sid Lasher! I grew up with him. I had just started high school when he died. He had the greatest funeral ever. About half the city showed up. I sure do miss him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciara Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 What happened to "Jerry Dale" ... at Houston KHOU TV. He was back-up for Sid Lasher and took Sid's place after Sid suddenly passed away. Jerry Dale later hosted a KHOU Channel 11 TV broadcast called "This Week In Houston." He was a kind and respected friend during the mid-to-late 1970s and through the late 1980s. His name is Joseph John DeBenedetto and was from Yonkers, NY. I did not find anything via an internet search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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