David Henry Ward (born May 6, 1939 in Huntsville, Texas) is the president of a local charity and a retired American journalist.
 He was an anchor of the weekday 6:00 pm newscast on KTRK-TV's "Eyewitness News" in Houston, Texas for more than 50 years.
 He joined KTRK-TV in 1966 as reporter and photographer and was promoted to his final position as weekday evening anchor in 1968, and is the longest running news anchor in American television, surpassing the late Hal Fishman in 2015.
Paul Moyer (born August 1, 1941) is an American journalist.
 He co-anchored the 5 PM and 11 PM weekday editions of KNBC-TV's "Channel 4 News" with Colleen Williams.
 Moyer has worked primarily in the two major television markets—New York and Los Angeles—in addition to briefly working on network newscasts.
 Moyer was Los Angeles' longest-running news anchor following the death of KTLA anchor Hal Fishman on August 7, 2007.
 He is married and has four children, Elise, Paul, Dylan and Kyle.
The Itchy & Scratchy Show (often shortened as Itchy & Scratchy) is a running gag and fictional animated television series featured in the American animated television series "The Simpsons".
 It usually appears as a part of "The Krusty the Clown Show", watched regularly by Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson.
 Itself an animated cartoon, "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" depicts a sadistic anthropomorphic blue mouse, Itchy (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), who repeatedly maims and kills an anthropomorphic, hapless threadbare black cat, Scratchy (voiced by Harry Shearer).
 The cartoon first appeared in "The Tracey Ullman Show" short "The Bart Simpson Show", which originally aired November 20, 1988.
 The cartoon's first appearance in "The Simpsons" was in the 1990 episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home".
 Typically presented as 15-to-60-second-long cartoons, the show is filled with gratuitous violence.
 "The Simpsons" also occasionally features characters who are involved with the production of "The Itchy & Scratchy Show", including Roger Meyers Jr. (voiced by Alex Rocco, and, later, Hank Azaria), who runs the studio and produces the show.
Harold "Hal" Fishman (August 25, 1931 – August 7, 2007) was a local news anchor in the Los Angeles area, serving on-air with Los Angeles-area television stations continuously between 1960 until his death in 2007.
 Fishman was the longest-running news anchor in the history of American television before Dave Ward surpassed him in 2015.
 He was also a record-holding aviator.
 "The Simpsons" cartoon television anchorman Kent Brockman was partially inspired by Hal Fishman.
HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's "Space Odyssey" series.
 First appearing in "", HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial general intelligence) that controls the systems of the "Discovery One" spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
 Part of HAL's hardware is shown towards the end of the film, but he is mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red or yellow dot, instances of which are located throughout the ship.
 HAL 9000 is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two feature film adaptations of the "Space Odyssey" series.
 And in a short film he is voiced by Andrew Stanton.
 HAL speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole.
Mighty Flip Champs!
 is a puzzle platform video game, developed and published by WayForward Technologies for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital download service.
 It was first announced on March 9, 2009, and was released on June 1, 2009 in North America and on November 27, 2009 in the PAL regions.
 The developers took inspiration from multiple sources, including the video games "Wendy: Every Witch Way" and "".
 In it, players control Alta, a girl who has to reach a fishman by flipping between areas until she can reach him.
 Since its release, "Mighty Flip Champs!"
 has received all-around positive reception.
 It holds an aggregate score of 83/100 and 83.50% from Metacritic and GameRankings respectively, while also being called one of the best video games for the DSiWare service.
 It is the first game in the "Mighty" series, and is followed by "Mighty Milky Way" and "Mighty Switch Force!
".
Dick Nourse is a retired award-winning Salt Lake City, Utah television news anchor.
 He most recently worked for KSL 5 Television.
 Nourse joined the KSL news team in 1964 as the station's weekend anchor/reporter.
 Six months later, he was named the station's weekday anchor.
 He concluded his 43-year career with his final newscast on November 28, 2007, a record term for a Utah television news anchor.
 Nourse's longevity as an American news anchor comes second to that of the late Hal Fishman, whose career spanned 47 years.
Candy Matson was a radio program on NBC West Coast which aired from June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951.
 It centered on Candy Matson, a female private investigator with a wry sense of humor and a penthouse on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
 The program was notable for having a strong female character "without a trace of squeamishness" as well as a veiled gay character in Candy's best friend Rembrandt Watson, voiced by Jack Thomas.
 Candy's love interest was police detective Ray Mallard, voiced by Henry Leff.
 The announcer was Dudley Manlove.
 Actors frequently heard in minor roles were Helen Kleeb, John Grober, Mary Milford and Hal Burdick.
Snake Jailbird (usually referred to as simply Snake) is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series "The Simpsons", who is voiced by Hank Azaria.
 Snake's first appearance was in the episode "The War of the Simpsons".
 His catchphrase is "Bye!"
, which he usually says when he's in trouble.
 His real name is Albert Knickerbocker Aloysius Snake, although a Simpsons card says his name is Chester Turley.
 He was named the 19th (out of 25) of IGN's Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters.
Kent Brockman is a fictional character in the animated television series "The Simpsons".
 He is voiced by Harry Shearer and first appeared in the episode "Krusty Gets Busted".
 He is a grumpy, self-centered local Springfield news anchor.

Question: Hal Fishman was the inspiration of a character in The Simpsons voiced by who?
Answer: Harry Shearer