Ken Roberts, an announcer who introduced the soap operas Love of Life and The Secret Storm, died June 19, 2009, of pneumonia in New York City. He was 99.

On radio, Roberts was the voice of numerous comedies, dramas, mysteries, game shows and variety shows. It was not unusual for him to be on the air half a dozen times a day. Among his radio highlights was announcing several seasons of The Shadow, including 1937-38, when Orson Welles played the lead character, Lamont Cranston.

He was born Saul Trochman in Manhattan on February 22, 1910, and attended law school before getting his start in radio in the late 1920s in New Jersey. He worked at New York’s CBS radio outlet for 20 years, starting in 1931, and appeared in the 1937 Broadway comedy Hitch Your Wagon.

In the 1950s Roberts made the transition to television. He was the original announcer for Candid Camera and also the voice of the game show Dollar a Second, for which he also did on-air commercials for the show’s sponsor, Mogen David wine.

Television provided Roberts’ most enduring legacy as announcer for the long-running daytime dramas The Secret Storm and Love of Life.

Years later, Roberts announced the children’s series The Electric Company. He also drew upon his personal history as an off-screen announcer in the feature film Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen and costarring Roberts’ son, actor Tony Roberts.

In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife, a daughter, two stepchildren and four grandchildren.