Vaughan Harvey's voice iconic as a newsreader and trainer of hundreds of radio announcers in South Australia

Vaughan Harvey started full-time in Adelaide radio in 1951 as a turntable boy with 5KA.

Broadcaster Vaughan Harvey's voice became a South Australian icon for its “dulcet smooth-as-aged-whiskey tones” but he also was renowned for his radio schools that trained hundreds of the state’s aspiring radio announcers.

Harvey began in radio at age 12, doing advertisements on radio 2BH Broken Hill. When he moved to Adelaide to start his radio career, Harvey and was encouraged by 5AD announcer Bob Fricker and gained some boy parts in radio plays with the ABC. In 1951, he started as a turntable boy at radio 5KA and over 26 years rose to announcer, program director and news director in the 1970s in its glory days as Australia’s rock station. He was given the extra role of the running the School of Radio for the South Australian Broadcasting Network and later started his own radio school.

Harvey entered another phase when he joined 5AD and teamed with television legend Roger Cardwell in the Cardwell Harvey News Report during the breakfast show.

He was later a newsreader at 5AA and later presented programmes for Radio Adelaide (5UV). After leaving regular broadcasting, Harvey continued with his own Vaughan Harvey Radio School, fostering future radio and television talent.