Editing Johnny Jacobs (section)

==Early career==
===Radio===
Jacobs was the announcer for ''The Steve Allen Show'' on [[CBS]] in 1950. The program was a summer replacement for ''[[Our Miss Brooks#Radio|Our Miss Brooks]]'', which starred [[Eve Arden]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Morse|first1=Leon|title=The Steve Allen Show|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_UDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Steve+Allen%22+%22Johnny+Jacobs%22&pg=PA37|accessdate=14 April 2015|magazine=Billboard|date=July 1, 1950|page=37}}</ref> In 1952–1953, he was the announcer for ''[[The Doris Day Show (radio program)|The Doris Day Show]]'' on CBS.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+Doris+Day+show,+transcribed%22&pg=PA207 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=207|edition=Revised |access-date=2019-09-16}}</ref> In 1955, he was the announcer for the ''Gary Crosby Show'' on CBS.<ref>{{cite news|title=Looie, Gary Crosby Hot|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2213240/gary_crosby_show/ |work=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=September 24, 1955|page=15|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = April 14, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>

===Television===
In the early 1950s, he was the emcee of a television show called ''Bachelor's Haven''. Also, he was the original announcer for the last season of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', in 1956. He was a regular on [[Betty White]]'s comedy show in 1958 and did announcing work for the early 1960s revival of ''[[The Steve Allen Show]]''. Other shows he worked on included the ''[[Gene Autry]] Show'' and the ''[[Dinah Shore]] Show''. Throughout his career, he occasionally acted in television shows, making guest appearances on ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' (episode 3), ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' and ''[[The Munsters]]''. He also appeared, as himself, in ''[[The Gong Show Movie]]''.