Editing Johnny Jacobs (section)

==Game shows and final years==
He was the first announcer for ''[[The Joker's Wild]]'', which starred [[Jack Barry (game show host)|Jack Barry]] and debuted on [[CBS]] in 1972. Barry employed Jacobs to announce many such Jack Barry/[[Barry & Enright Productions]] game shows during the early to middle 1970s as ''[[Blank Check (game show)|Blank Check]]'', the 1976 ABC run of [[Break the Bank (1976 game show)|''Break The Bank'']], and ''[[Hollywood's Talking]]'' for CBS.

Most notably, however, [[Chuck Barris]] employed Jacobs's voice talents on the aforementioned ''[[The Newlywed Game]]'' and ''[[The Dating Game]]'', and also for other such Barris productions as ''[[The Gong Show]]'', ''[[Three's a Crowd (game show)|Three's a Crowd]]'' and ''[[The $1.98 Beauty Show]]''. His last job was announcing a Barris-produced version of ''[[Treasure Hunt (US game show)|Treasure Hunt]]'' which was syndicated during the 1981-82 season (Jacobs had also announced the 1970s syndicated version of ''Treasure Hunt'' as well). However, illness forced him to step down from this version of ''Treasure Hunt'' by late 1981, and he was replaced by frequent Barris fill-in announcer Tony McClay. {{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Jacobs died in [[Stockton, California]], where he owned radio station [[KWG radio|KWG]], at the age of 65.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/02/08/Obituaries/2098381992400/ |website=upi.com |publisher=[[United Press International]] |date=8 Feb 1982}}</ref>