Brian Haymond’s Voice, Partnering with Samaritan’s Purse, Wins Award

Brian Haymond was honored to partner with Samaritan’s Purse on a national commercial/PSA providing voice over narration about the humanitarian relief needed by all the ravaged people in Sudan.

Recently, the spot “Sudan / Samaritan’s Purse was Listening”, won the prestigious 2009 National Religious Broadcasters Media Award for Best Television Commercial of the Year.

Impressed by the work itself and the team that produced the winning video, Haymond remarked, “The video production these folks do is stellar in every way, so I’m not surprised to see the work noticed but, to have been a part of the finished product is very fulfilling. My hat’s off to those who put it all together!”

NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) has a convention each year and the upcoming convention is in Nashville, Feb. 7-10, 2009.

Like many voice over professionals, the voice acting gene runs in the Haymond family.

Brian Haymond’s daughters, Olivia (11) and Samantha (8) both do voiceover when they can through auditions on Voices.com exclusively, also gaining work through offline efforts. Olivia just finished doing some voiceover for The Boy Scouts of America and Samantha has been doing a campaign for Bojangle’s Chicken and Biscuits, a job she landed on Voices.com.

Haymond has a history with Samaritan’s Purse having narrated promotional videos for their yearly campaign “Operation Christmas Child“, a drive that encourages children to give gifts to children around the world in need of items such as school supplies, winter apparel including mittens, hats, socks, even toothbrushes and toys, neatly packaged in a brightly decorated, festive shoe box to be received at Christmas.

Haymond shared, “Some of the money my girls made from their voice over work was donated to Operation Christmas Child. The instructions ask that those donating goods consider adding $7 per box to help cover processing and so on. Both of my girls took some of the money they made doing voiceover and put $7 in each of the 6 boxes!! So, with the help of Voices.com, we are teaching the girls about good work ethic and giving to others in need! PRICELESS!!”

In related news, Brian Haymond’s song “Deckno the Halls” made the cut for the Holiday Magic 2009 CD, a compilation of voice over and musical recordings that will be distributed to children who are hospitalized and to their siblings during the holiday season in select hospitals across the US. Holiday Magic is a CD produced annually by Jeff Gelder of GelderHead Productions.

Source: Brian Haymond

Howard Reig, Original Voice Of NBC Nightly News, Dies at 87

Howard Reig was not a household name, but his voice was familiar in homes nationwide as the opening announcer of the “NBC Nightly News” for more than two decades.

Reig, whose authoritative baritone delivered “From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is the ‘NBC Nightly News’” as recently as 11 months ago, died Monday in Venice at 87.

He worked with evening news anchormen John Chancellor, Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams from 1983 until he retired in 2005.

The network continued to use his recorded introduction until last December, when it tapped actor Michael Douglas to start the newscast.

“By my tally, he has introduced nearly 7,000 ‘Nightly’ broadcasts,” Brett Holey, director of the “NBC Nightly News,” said after Reig’s last broadcast.

Williams delivered an on-air tribute to Reig on Wednesday.

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Sandman Live: 20th Anniversary Reading Hosted By Neil Gaiman

Veteran voice actor Tom Wayland and others will read from some of the most politically charged excerpts of THE SANDMAN written by *New York Times* best-selling author Neil Gaiman, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of THE SANDMAN.

Hosted by the CBLDF and Vertigo, the dramatic reading will be will be held it the Helen Mills Theater in New York City on Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available for a $50 donation to the CBLDF. Only 100 tickets are available to this special reading event.

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New Peanuts Voices

Barack Obama, John McCain … or Linus?

In a batch of 20 new webisodes, Charlie Brown and the gang have been brought back to animated life, much in the style of their classic holiday TV specials. But Lucy, Snoopy and others have been remade for the Web in 3- to 4-minute videos taken directly from classic 1964 comic strips.

In one of them, Linus runs for class president, only to be bedeviled by a controversial skeleton from his past: his strident belief in his Halloween hero, the Great Pumpkin.

Linus pleads: “In my administration, children will be children and adults will be adults!”

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