| | GRANT TURNER | Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum | Nashville, Tennessee |
 | | Jesse Granderson “Grant” Turner, Texas-born Voice of the Grand Ole Opry, served on that show’s announcing staff for forty-seven years and is currently the only announcer/disc jockey to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. |
 | | Turner majored in journalism at college and worked for Texas and Louisiana newspapers during the 1930s, but he returned to radio announcing in 1940 at KFRO in Longview, Texas. |
 | | Turner got what he called the “big prize” when he became announcer for R. Reynolds’s NBC network half hour of the Grand Ole Opry, in the late 1940s: the Prince Albert Show, piped weekly to some 170 stations and some 10 million listeners by 1953. |
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