Bill Owen (born February 1, 1931), widely known as the King of Trivia, is an American writer and radio and television announcer whose career spans six decades.

Owen participated in football, baseball, basketball, and track as a young man and became an avid fisherman, water and snow skier, and licensed pilot and one day achieved his dream of parachuting from an airplane.

He was editor of his high school newspaper (the Bismarck, North Dakota "Hi-Herald") and after three years of pre-med studies at the University of Southern California, he switched his major to telecommunications.

After graduating cum laude, Owen entered service and was assigned to the American Forces Network in Germany where he did play-by-play announcing of football, basketball, and baseball.

He later returned to North Dakota and worked for KFYR radio and TV in Bismarck as an announcer, sports director, and cowboy entertainer "Marshal Bill."

While in service he met Rosemary Bobo of Gray Court, South Carolina, a high school home economics teacher, and they were married on October 1, 1955.

Owen was also selected to become a disc jockey on WABC radio ("MusicRadio 77") as one of the station's original "Swinging Seven" which also included Scott Muni, Herb Oscar Anderson, Chuck Dunaway, Jack Carney, Farrell Smith, and Charlie Greer (who was known for always spraying the microphone for germs when his shift began).

During his years at ABC, Owen co-wrote with announcer Allan Jefferys a novel about a disc jockey titled DJ published by Popular Library.

After leaving ABC in 1990, Owen was the principal voice of superstation WWOR-TV for three and a half years and then brought back WNEW's legendary Make Believe Ballroom for two radio stations in New Jersey where he interviewed such stars as Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Kitty Kallen, Margaret Whiting, Al Martino, Les Paul, Patti Page, Julius La Rosa, Jo Stafford, Les Brown, Frankie Laine, Don Cornell, and Patty Andrews.

He recently released a new book, Dropping Names,[8] which takes the reader on a 60-year plus trip through the world of broadcasting, introducing us to the famous and not-so-famous that he met and worked with along the way.

He continues to do radio and TV commercials, the best-known being a series for the National Motor Museum Mint featuring replicas of popular cars and trucks from the past.