Victor Emanuel Bozeman (August 11, 1929 in

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– November 26, 1986 in

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) was an American

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artist, and

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. In the 1950s, Bozeman was a

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.''Broadcasting Yearbook'', 1957: WLIB advertisement, page 186. Collection of David Gleason.
/ref> In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he appeared in supporting roles on such

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s as '' It Takes a Thief'', '' Ironside'', and ''

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''. He also played a "Black Reporter" in the 1970

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for '' McCloud''. By 1974, Bozeman had switched to announcing work and joined the staff of

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in Burbank, California. At the time, he was one of the few

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s to make it in that field; on Bozeman's own network, for example, the closest equivalent was New York-based

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. From the mid-1970s to the first half of the 1980s, Bozeman was part of a nucleus of West Coast announcers employed by the network; his compatriots included Don Stanley, Donald Rickles, and

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. Bozeman worked on some NBC network program

but the majority of his duties consisted of live booth-announcing work - including Promotion (marketing), promotional spots, bumpers,

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s, program introductions, live tags and sign-offs - for the local network owned-and-operated station, KNBC. He alternated with his colleagues in introducing the station's ''NewsCenter 4'' every night, and in being thanked on the air by

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John Schubeck. Bozeman also anchored sign-on and sign-off editions of ''NewsCenter4'' out-of-vision. Bozeman died on November 26, 1986, at age 57.

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Video clip of 1977 opening of KNBC's ''NewsCenter 4'' introduced by Victor Bozeman
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bozeman, Victor 1929 births 1986 deaths People from McLennan County, Texas American male voice actors African-American television personalities Radio and television announcers NBC network announcers 20th-century American male actors 20th-century African-American people Television personalities from Texas