Howard Hoffman

Howard Hoffman (born October 6, 1954) is an American voice actor and a broadcast branding producer in New York City.

He was also a presenter of Contemporary Hit Radio shows in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Providence, Phoenix, and Houston.

After initial success, the disco craze eventually fizzled, so Howard set his sights on an area he always loved, New England.

In 1979, Rick Sklar, vice president in charge of programming for ABC Radio, sought out and hired Howard to take over the evening show at their Houston FM station, KAUM.

[7] To accommodate his phone-intensive act, WABC installed an extra mixing board and a telephone hybrid system – something the station never used previously.

However, everyone involved was aware that FM was beginning to dominate the radio landscape, and Howard's arrival was designed to be part of a game-changer for the station.

It was a huge in-studio party with WABC and WPLJ engineers, staffers and announcers while Hoffman counted down the top 100 of the year.

Despite an improvement in listenership,[8] the handwriting was on the wall for AM's future, and WABC began the switch to talk in 1981 with the addition of the New York Yankees, which moved Howard to the all-night shift.

Howard attempted to do an all-night talk show called The Phonebooth which was produced and co-written by his friend Tom Leykis.

[9] Howard went back to San Francisco to sell the property he bought during his KMEL era and did a short stint at KFRC.

His voice acting credits include all the characters[12] in the Academy Award nominated animated short The Chicken from Outer Space[13] – the pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog.

His commercial credits include REI, Hostess, Kraft, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ford, Anheuser-Busch, Audi, Post Cereals, Wawa Markets, Mattel, NBC, T-Mobile and many more.