From the Stevens Point Journal April 15, 2009:

Trivia contestants, organizers remember longtime announcer

When WWSP 90FM kicks off its trivia contest with its customary song, "Born to be Wild," it won't be accompanied by the only voice the contest has ever known.

"Tom and 'Born to be Wild' to start Trivia always went together," said Ken Manske, referring to longtime Trivia voice Tom Daniels, who died of a heart attack during last year's event. "It's going to be different hearing one without the other."

Manske, who plays on the team Mutated Members, will be one of thousands of veteran players who will have to adjust to a new voice this year. Daniels had done the on-air teasers, commercials and all the introductions since they began in 1974.

"His voice, more than anybody or anything, was synonymous with Trivia," said Jim "Oz" Oliva, the main organizer.

After Daniels died, Oliva wasn't sure which direction to go for the on-air voice. Should he keep trying to use Daniel's voice, reworking in the new information, or just cut ties and go with a new person?

Oliva decided to find someone new. He spent all summer and fall finding the right person, someone who would be committed for a long haul, allowing listeners to get comfortable with someone else as they were with Daniels.

But just because there is a fresh voice, a yet-to-be-identified person Oliva wouldn't disclose, doesn't mean anyone will be forgetting Daniels anytime soon.

The contest's first-place trophy will be named after him, so every year, he will get a deserving recognition.

"Everybody is going to miss him," Manske said. "But to name a trophy after you, that's pretty good."