American Radio Personality. Was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he studied English and helped start a radio station with fellow student Charles Kuralt, who became a CBS newsman celebrated for his folksy “On the Road” segments. Mr. Kasell, in the Class of 1956, left the university shortly before graduation to fulfill Army service. A longtime announcer for the annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on CBS, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2010 and spent many years as NPR’s “roving ambassador.”
American Radio Personality. Was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he studied English and helped start a radio station with fellow student Charles Kuralt, who became a CBS newsman celebrated for his folksy “On the Road” segments. Mr. Kasell, in the Class of 1956, left the university shortly before graduation to fulfill Army service. A longtime announcer for the annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on CBS, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2010 and spent many years as NPR’s “roving ambassador.”
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