VANCOUVER – On Monday, David Kaye, arguably Canada’s top voice-over talent, has joined Fox Sports Network (FSN).
Kaye has signed a lucrative six-figure deal to be the “voice” of ¹the network which provides sports programming to 80 million households through almost 20 regional cable sports networks, says a press release.
FSN is owned by Fox Entertainment Group and was formed in April 1996 as a joint venture between Fox and Liberty Media Corporation; Fox bought out Liberty’s interest in 1999. Kaye’s duties for the regional network will include “shining John Sally’s shoes before the start of FSN’s The Best Damn Sports Show Period,” said Kaye in the release. “Oh, ya, and voicing everything from NFL to NASCAR properties and show promos for the entire network.”
When Kaye began his career as a voice-over artist, he never imagined that it would take him this far, continues the release. Kaye started by landing the voice of ‘General Hawk’ on the popular G.I. Joe television series and never stopped working after that, accumulating fans from around the world for voices such as Megatron on the Beast Wars series as well as dozens more.
Kaye also provides station imaging for over 100 radio and television stations and moved into voicing electronic games along the way. Kaye’s most current video game projects still under way or recently released include the enormously popular “Ratchet & Clank 4” (Clank), “Psychonauts” (Ford Crueller), “Inuyasha” (Sesshomaru), “Viet Kong” and “Scarface” for Vivendi/Universal. Kaye’s newest animated cartoon series to launch this fall is Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island and is also heavily featured in the Warner Bros. animated feature “Ant Bully” produced by Tom Hanks and due to hit theaters early in 2006.
“Being chosen to be the voice of a network like FSN wasn’t even in my program of possibilities,” adds Kaye. “Although being the voice of a major network has always been part of my psyche from day one. Also, landing any characters in a feature film never seemed likely to me. Those are always given to big name stars. I’ll never forget what someone told me once. Be careful what you wish for.”
