Tim Russell

Radio Announcer & Voice Talent
AFTRA/SAG

Tim Russell in a voice-over session at Babble-On Recording Studios in downtown Minneapolis.

(Photo: Martin Thomas)

"Tim has been at WCCO radio in Minneapolis for twenty-some years, since he was 20 or so, The Good Neighbor to the Great Northwest, the powerhouse station of my youth, and he's done various announcing shifts there and now is a sort of cultural reporter and reviews movies. A good gig for him. And then for [A Prairie Home Companion] he does dead-on Schwarzenegger and Bush and Julia Child and Bill Clinton and every other impression, acts, can do double-talk French so Gallic that Francophones double over laughing (plus Swedish, German, Russian, Arabic, and very fast Italian).”

- Garrison Keillor, Rhubarb Tour Diary

Listen to Twin Cities radio announcer and voice talent, Tim Russell as he demos his work on A Prairie Home Companion and on national television and radio ads.

To Book or Audition:

To hire Tim Russell contact Amy Oppegaard of Wehmann Models and Talent, Inc. in Minneapolis at 612.333.6393.

LA representation: Contact Wes Stevens of VOX at 323.655.8699.

Links

Twin Cities Radio and ISDN Voice-Over Recording Studio Links

WCCO Radio

A veteran and well-respected Twin Cities radio announcer, Tim Russell is on the air weekdays from 5-9 a.m. as entertainment editor on 830 WCCO Radio. Named "Best Radio Host" by Mpls / St. Paul Magazine and "Outstanding Broadcast Personality" by the Minnesota Broadcasters Association, Tim's arts, entertainment and film reviews are heard hourly on "The WCCO Morning News with Dave Lee."

A Prairie Home Companion

Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion is a nationally known radio show heard weekly by over four million listeners on over 558 public radio stations.

A Prairie Home Companion’s official Web site is THE place to learn more about the show. There you can listen to audio excerpts of archived performances, view photos of the cast performing at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, and shop the Prairie Home Companion Catalog for all sorts of books, CDs, DVDs and other treasures from A Prairie Home Companion. Tim Russell’s voice-overs are featured on several CDs, including the latest, “Commercial Radio,” a compilation of radio ads from A Prairie Home Companion’s so-called sponsors, published by HighBridge Audio. The CD includes humorous radio ads for The Catchup Advisory Board, Guy's Shoes, The American Duct Tape Council and Powdermilk Biscuits, of course.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary broadcast season of A Prairie Home Companion, the show is available for the first time on DVD. Taped before live audiences at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, the DVD features the 30th anniversary broadcast with Garrison Keillor and cast regulars Sue Scott and Tim Russell with Tom Keith, Fred Newman and music by The Guy´s All-Star Shoe Band.

Wehmann Models and Talent

Wehmann Models and Talent, an AFTRA/SAG/AEA franchise established in 1984, books Tim Russell’s commercial voice-over work. If you’ve heard Tim’s character voices on A Prairie Home Companion and you want him to voice your next award-winning television or radio ad, contact Amy Oppegaard in Minneapolis at 612.333.6393.

VOX

VOX is a full service voice-over agency. Representing an impressive array of working actors and celebrities, VOX handles artists with extensive experience in television commercials, radio, animation, narration, promos and trailers.

Twin Cities ISDN Voice-Over Recording Studios

Twin Cities recording studios have all that fancy-schmancy ISDN digital voice-over recording technology so that your clients in Los Angeles, New York or Dubuque can have Tim Russell's voice no matter where you or your clients are located. Check out these EDNet-affiliated recording studios offering worldwide ISDN voice-over recording using APT-X and Telos/Zephyr all from downtown Minneapolis.

Audio Ruckus

Babble-On Recording Studios

Sound80

Twin Cities ISDN Custom Music / Sound Design Studios

Twin Cities custom music and sound design studios offer ISDN, scoring, original music, large libraries of stock music and sound effects and sound design solutions for radio commercials, television ads, film, video and the interactive world.