Veteran announcer Tamaoki dies at 76

Veteran announcer Tamaoki dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran announcer Hiroshi Tamaoki (file photo taken in August, 2005), who is best known as the host of a popular TV music program broadcast between the 1950s and 1970s, died of brain-stem hemorrhage on Feb. 11, 2010, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 76.

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