After a 53 year career in radio and the past 44 in Dallas, anchor Mitch Carr has retired from Entercom News 1080 KRLD Dallas.
Carr has anchored for KRLD since 2009 after serving as newscaster for the Ron Chapman Show on 103.7 KVIL and then at 98.7 KLUV from 1985-2009. He has also worked at KLIF, KTXQ, KMGC and KIXK during his career in Dallas. He began his career in Springfield MO and also worked at AFRTS while in the Air Force and in Indianapolis before coming to Dallas.
Carr is also known to many children of the 1980s as the voice of Texas Instruments’ “Speak and Spell”. The educational toy “marked the first time the human vocal tract had been electronically duplicated on a single chip of silicon.”