John Harvey (announcer)
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Other name(s) | Harvey the Announcer, Harvey in the Morning |
Occupation | Television, radio actor |
John Harvey is an American television and radio personality. He was the announcer for Double Dare, Finders Keepers, and History IQ, and hosted and built projects on Gimme Shelter, a home improvement program on the Discovery Channel in the late 1990s. On Double Dare he was referred to has "Harvey the Announcer", or simply, "Harvey". Prior to his announcing duties at Nickelodeon, Harvey had worked at Philadelphia radio station WIOQ from 1977 to 1989, where he was known as "Harvey in the Morning." He later worked as a disc jockey at WMGK in Philadelphia. In the early 2000s, Harvey was first a location scout and later a producer for the TLC TV series Trading Spaces.