Johnny Donovan

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Johnny Donovan is an American radio announcer and producer, based at New York's WABC (AM).^[1] He has served as a disk jockey, announcer, and producer at WABC since the 1960s. He is heard internationally as the "voice" of Rush Limbaugh's syndicated talk radio show, whose flagship station has been WABC since 1988.

Donovan was a long time New York City Top 40 disk jockey at WOR-FM and WABC (AM), and became production director/announcer at WABC in 1982. He is currently the "voice" of WABC and Limbaugh's show and has continued with The Rush Limbaugh Show to this day, even though Limbaugh himself is based either at the Premiere Radio studios in New York City or South Florida.

Johnny Donovan, with the assistance of Peter Kanze, Rob Frankel and Allan Sniffen, produces the annual WABC Rewound program each Memorial Day.^[2]

Born Richard Ulrich, Jr., he grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY, nicknamed "Sarge," after his father's former rank in the Army. A radio enthusiast from an early age (with an amateur radio station in a corner of the basement), he became a DJ ("Large Sarge") on WHVW in nearby Hyde Park, after helping build the station. He went on to stations in Kingston and Binghamton, NY, and Atlantic City, NJ before landing in New York, first at WOR-FM, and finally at WABC ("The Holy Grail"), before the station converted from music to talk.

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"Live from the EIB southern command in sunny south Florida, via New York City, it's Open Line Friday."
"And now back to America's most influential talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh."
"When they say conservative talk radio, they really mean Rush, on the EIB Network. 77 WABC"