Facey joined the announcing staff of
NBC in
New York City in 1967, and remained with the network for the rest of his life. In time, he would join the likes of
Don Pardo and
Howard Reig in holding lifetime contracts with the network. Prior to joining NBC, he had been a freelance announcer in
Washington, D.C., the
Long Island area and New York City. By the mid-1970s or so, Facey began working on the television side, first as a booth announcer on promotional spots and bumpers. Starting in 1979, he introduced
WNBC-TV's nightly
NewsCenter4. He would remain the announcer for the station's newscasts for much of its 1980-1995 run as
News 4 New York. In addition, he announced for
Live at Five for its first two years on the air, before Don Pardo took over the duties for that show. It was also in that period that Facey and Howard Reig became the main voices of
NBC News, following the retirement of another longtime staff announcer,
Bill Hanrahan. Over the next two decades, Facey's distinctive baritone voice would be heard on
The Today Show,
Meet the Press,
The News with Brian Williams and weekend editions of
NBC Nightly News, as well as the network's coverage of
political conventions and
space shuttle launches and landings. Besides his news work, his voice was also heard on
promos for such programs as
Saturday Night Live and
Last Call with Carson Daly. ==Death==