The Very Best Overseas Radio Correspondents; CBS' Rome Reporter Sabina Castelfranco; Jerusalem' Robert Berger; London's Larry Miller; The Late, Great, Bruno Wassertheil; 'The Voice of Nasa: Rob Navius'; 415 Media Tuesday Opener

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Sabina Castelfranco

*Sabina Castelfranco: CBS Radio News and Rome correspondent: You've no doubt heard her voice with its distinctive Italian accent: "Sabina Castelfranco, CBS News, ...Rome." How distinctive; how invigorating; but better then that, SCF is a damn good foreign correspondent and winner of numerous industry awards. She's also an occasional contributor to CBS' "60 Minutes"

CBS News' Jerusalem correspondent Robert Berger

*If you're a regular listener of KCBS, you've no doubt heard Robert Berger's influential and endearing voice from the CBS News Jerusalem bureau. Berger has a charming tone; almost professorial as if he were about to begin class on a study of Middle East politics. More distinctly, Berger's tone doesn't change much even if he's reporting from a war zone such as the West Bank or Gaza.

 

Larry Miller

*Larry Miller has been reporting from CBS' London bureau since the mid 70's. He has the perfect pitch and sound for correspondent school. Miller sets the right voice be it a terrorist bombing; Olympics' minutiae back in 2012; the Royal Family; British pop music history beginning with, of course, The Beatles. One of my favorite radio voices. A dignified man, Mr. Miller. He could narrate an Ozzy Osbourne concert and make it sound mellow.

Bruno Wassertheil

*Bruno Wassertheil died way back in 2004. If you ever listened to news radio during the 70's, Wassertheil reported from Israel and had a very commanding voice --as if he was a war correspondent. The radio veteran lived in Palo Alto. Among some of his greatest accounts, the Israeli attack on Entebbe freeing hostages in 1976.

*"The 'Voice of NASA: Rob Navius" as he was known covering the space agency for over 35 years. Navius was actually a Bay Area native covering news and sports for AP Radio and best known for possessing a boom mike that appeared to be 10 feet tall.

Navius had an insatiable love for space and Apollo and Shuttle liftoffs --his mass interest in the heavens landed him a gig in Houston in the early 80's and the rest, as they say, history.

Rob Navius