MEDIA RELEASE – O’Connell Plays Tech Dad for Western Union
ENGLEWOOD, CO October 1, 2017 – – While the reasons for needing to send money around the country or around the world haven’t changed that much, the technology we use to do it has changed. For Western Union, the leader in global payment services, their message for consumers is that, in spite of all the technology that helps make sending money possible, actually sending the money through Western Union is usually pretty easy.
In their recent national broadcast radio commercial to make that point, voice actor Peter K. O’Connell was selected as the voice of a well-meaning but not always so tech-savvy Dad who impresses himself and his college-aged son by easily transferring money via the Western Union app.
About Western Union
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders
About Peter K. O’Connell
From Fortune 500 companies to companies that think $500 is a fortune, multi-award winning male voiceover talent Peter K. O’Connell has shared his voiceover skills with a wide variety of global companies. In addition to Western Union, some of Peter’s clients include Duracell Batteries, General Electric, Kraft Foods, PBS Television Network, Shell Oil, Deloitte Canada, U.S. Army, Starz Cable Television Network, BlueCross BlueShield and SunSetter Awnings.
Known as America’s Friendly, Neighborhood Voiceover Talent, Peter is a natural born storyteller whose voice-over work has been featured in radio and TV commercials, corporate narrations, political commercial voice-overs, TV network promos, e-learning narration projects and other media productions. Originally from Buffalo, NY, now living in Raleigh, NC, Peter owns audio’connell Voiceover Talent, a division of O’Connell Communications, LLC. Peter can be reached via audioconnell.com or peterkoconnell.com.
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CONTACT
Peter K. O’Connell
Your Friendly, Neighborhood Voiceover Talent
audio’connell Voiceover Talent
P.O. Box 5493 | Raleigh, NC 27512-5493
PH. +01 716-572-1800
EM. peter@audioconnell.com W. audioconnell.com
COMPANY MEDIA CENTER
http://www.audioconnell.com/media
PETER K. O’CONNELL VO CREDITS
http://www.audioconnell.com/clientuploads/pdf/PDF%202017/ OConnell_Peter_Voice_Over_Resume_171001.pdf
COMPANY NAME SPELLING
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voiceover Talent
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)
RALEIGH, NC March 17, 2017 – – When the very young Peter K. O’Connell began his voiceover at a Dayton, Ohio radio station in 1982, Madonna didn’t have her first hit song yet, Reagan was president and the Internet wasn’t even a thing! Oh and O’Connell sported a mullet (business in front, party in the back).
DAYTON, OH, January 2, 2017 – – There was one reason Peter K. O’Connell wanted to attend the University of Dayton when he enrolled in 1982. The school owned a 50,000-watt FM commercial radio station and a select few students filled the on-air disc jockeys slots. O’Connell found himself working a regular on-air shift at WVUD-FM in only his freshman year; a voice talent was born.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, November 3, 2016 – – Jason Mitchell Outdoors Television, the popular fishing show broadcast on Fox Sports Net North and Fox Sports Net Midwest, has secured male voiceover talent Peter K. O’Connell as the show’s announcer. O’Connell voices the show sponsor bumpers as well as narrates certain video packages within the program.
BUFFALO, NY, September 26, 2016 – – For its new “Better Not Bigger” radio advertising spot, Evans Bank secured a better (and maybe only a little bigger — with age) voice talent as the radio campaign’s signature voice. In the radio ad, national voiceover talent Peter K. O’Connell shares the inviting message for customers inadvertently swept up in recent banking mergers to consider the financial strength and full banking services offered by Evans Bank.
HOUSTON, TX, August 16, 2016 – – Well known and respected for their tantalizing fish entrees, Bonefish Grill customers also appreciate the restaurant’s big city bar atmosphere, including seasonal cocktails. To entice Houston customers to enjoy their Martinis throughout August, Bonefish acquired the big city voice of Peter K. O’Connell for their radio spot.
