Dan Miller (television journalist/personality)

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Dan Miller (born September 30, 1941) grew up in Augusta, Georgia. He is a longtime news anchorman for WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee. He gained fame in the United States as the announcer and sidekick for his buddy and one-time Channel 4 colleague, Pat Sajak, during Sajak's short-lived CBS late-night talk show.

In the early 1990s, hosted his own cable talk show, "Miller & Company," on TNN. "Miller & Company" previously had aired on WSMV during the 1970's and 1980's. It was during a 1982 interview where he got Reba McEntire into a laughing fit over her favorite things to cook: "Mountain oysters" (which are actually cattle testicles). That interview is credited with landing Reba a guest spot on the Today Show and other national exposure, providing a considerable boost to her career.

Dan Miller also was a news anchor at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles during 1986 and 1987.

Miller appeared in the CBS movie, "Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story", which featured Michele Lee as Dottie West.

He also was a guest on Hollywood Squares during 1989.

Dan Miller is a prolific writer of essays about life on and off the TV screen, at *Dan Miller's Notebook