Career
He worked as an announcer and DJ at a radio station in Goldsboro before moving to the Washington, DC area in 1965. He advanced to the position of news director at WAVA in Arlington, Virginia. As news director in Virginia, he hired Katie Couric as an intern one summer. He joined National Public Radio's staff as a news announcer for Weekend All Things Considered in 1975. He was the news announcer for NPR's Morning Edition from its inception in 1979 through 2009.
NPR launched its weekly news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! in 1998, with Kasell as official judge and scorekeeper. The prize that Wait Wait... offers to its listener contestants is a recording of Kasell's voice for their personal telephone's answering machine or voice mail. Because this prize has been such a long standing tradition for the show, more than 2,000 people have had Carl Kasell's voice on their home answering machine.
He is a member of the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. In 1999, Kasell shared in the George Foster Peabody Award given to Morning Edition.
On November 23, 2009, NPR announced that Kasell would retire from newscasting at the end of 2009. Kasell's final newscast aired on December 30, 2009. Kasell continues to appear as the official scorer of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! He will also continue to work for NPR through visiting member stations and helping with fundraising.
During the August 7, 2010 broadcast of Wait Wait..., host Peter Sagal announced that Kasell had been voted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
For many years, Kasell has been the announcer for the annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on CBS.
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