BUFFALO, New York, December 27, 2007 – – With over 60 nominations submitted by professional voice talents in just four days, audio’connell Voice Over Talent president and professional voice over talent Peter K. O’Connell has opened to the public the voting process to select the “unofficial” winner for his company’s completely unofficial auditions for the announcer’s job on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

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O’Connell joined a chorus of voices on the web who were disappointed by the vocal performance of well respected actor Michael Douglas, the network’s new choice for the announcing position on the program.

Proposing a solution, O’Connell posted a completely unofficial open casting call on his voice-over company’s blog – voxmarketising.com. The call garnered over 60 submissions from voice over talents around the globe, all reading the news program’s introduction script with the show’s theme music. Almost 100 responses/votes have been posted on the blog to date, including the donation of a new USB microphone as a prize by donor who requested anonymity.

The auditions can be heard on the audio’connell Voice Over Talent’s blog site – http://www.voxmarketising.com – or accessed through the company’s web site – www.audioconnell.com/NBC.

Voters are requested to pick their top three choices from the submitted auditions, ranked in order of preference. Complete rules are listed on the blog.

O’Connell had advised that the network “should probably take Douglas back into the studio and try again. He’s a very talented guy. But if NBC News decides to make a change in announcers, we’ve got a bunch of great professional voices for them to choose from.”

audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, character voices, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates Voice Over Workshop (http://www.voworkshop.com/) to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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BUFFALO, New York, December 24, 2007 – – The introduction of a new announcer for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams has left some viewers and voice-over professionals scratching their heads. That includes the President of audio’connell Voice Over Talent and professional voice-over talent Peter K. O’Connell.

So O’Connell posted an unofficial open casting call to the voice over world, accepting audition “alternatives” for the Nightly News announcer. The auditions are posted on his company’s blog (www.voxmarketising.com). In less than 24 hours in the midst of the Christmas holiday, there have already been over 20 auditions posted, with more auditions coming in every hour.

“It wasn’t the choice of actor Michael Douglas as the new voice of NBC Nightly News that was surprising but rather his uninspired vocal performance,” O’Connell said. He noted further “Michael Douglas is an enormously talented actor, director and producer. He’s even done some great voice work on commercials. Ultimately, they should probably take him back into the studio and try again. But if network decides to make a change in announcers, we’ve got a bunch of great professional voices to choose from.”

Information on voting can be found by clicking HERE.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, character voices, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates Voice Over Workshop to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
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Company Name Pronunciation:
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Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice Over Talent

Company Web:
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Company Blog:
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, December 9, 2007 – – The 2007 Video Game Awards (VGA’s), to be shown on Spike TV December 9th, honored BioShock as “Game of the Year” at this year’s ceremony. audio’connell Voice-Over Talent president and voice talent Peter K. O’Connell was a voice actor featured in the highly acclaimed game.

Voice actor Peter K. O’Connell played the character of 1940’s Boston newsman Henry Egers in BioShock.

Produced by 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., BioShock is described as a “genetically enhanced” first-person shooter allowing players do things never before possible in the genre. BioShock is available for play in North America for Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows®, and in Europe.

As described by 2K Games in a release for BioShock: “Gamers enter the game as a castaway in Rapture, an underwater utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, players have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same and no two gamers will play BioShock the same way.”

audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates Voice Over Workshop to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

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TORONTO, Ontario, November 8, 2007 – – Canada’s most successful publisher and one of the country’s most international businesses has retained audio’connell Voice Over Talent to help produce its new series of podcasts.

Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is the world’s leading publisher of series of romance and women’s fiction; their production of a new series of podcasts will allow their devoted readers to learn more about the characters they follow and the authors who create them.

audio’connell Voice Over Talent will help the publishing company with scripting and production of the podcasts’ intros and outros.

Harlequin Enterprises Limited publishes approximately 120 new titles each month in 26 different languages in 109 international markets on six continents. In 2006. the company sold 131 million books –half overseas and a tremendous 96% outside of Canada.

audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates audio’connell’s Voice Over Workshop to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

O’Connell Voice-Over Resume:
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BUFFALO, New York, September 14, 2007 – – audio’connell Voice Over Talent president and professional voice talent Peter K. O’Connell was selected by Shell Oil Company to serve as the voice talent for a commercial to be shown at Shell-branded service stations across America.

Used as a commercial within Shell’s in-house broadcast network, the spot Mr. O’Connell voiced promotes Shell V-Power gasoline, America’s best-selling premium-grade gasoline. Shell V-Power is specifically formulated to help remove gunky engine build-up left behind from low-detergent discount gasolines on critical engine parts, specifically intake valves and fuel injectors.

Mr. O’Connell recorded the Shell V-Power gasoline commercial at Pomann Sound in New York City.

audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates Voice Over Workshop to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

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NEW YORK, New York, August 24, 2007 – – Upon the release of one of the most anticipated and highly rated video games in the genre’s history, it was announced today that professional male voice talent Peter K. O’Connell is a voice talent featured in the video game BioShock. Mr. O’Connell, who played the character of 1940’s Boston newsman Henry Egers in BioShock, is president of audio’connell Voice Over Talent.

Produced by 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., BioShock is described as a “genetically enhanced” first-person shooter allowing players do things never before possible in the genre. BioShock is available for play in North America r for Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows®, and in Europe.

As described by 2K Games in a release for BioShock: “Gamers enter the game as a castaway in Rapture, an underwater utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, players have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same and no two gamers will play BioShock the same way.”

audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional male and female voice talents specializing in commercials, character voices, corporate narrations, voice imaging, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

The company also operates Voice Over Workshop (www.voworkshop.com) to provide professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

O’Connell Voice-Over Resume:
See resume here

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