 By the 1970s Tonken had moved on to the TV outlet, WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV), handling station identifications, promos, bumpers and program introductions, up to his retirement from the station in 1989.Tonken's voice was still heard on the station sporadically into the early 1990s at the end of movie trailers during commercials announcing the dates the movies would begin playing at theaters..Besides his long association with WOR, Tonken was a narrator for Fox Movietone News in the 1950s and 1960s, and also was announcer for a 15-minute syndicated afternoon radio science fiction program, "The Planet Man", which was in the tradition of older sci-fi radio shows such as "Buck Rogers", "Flash Gordon" and "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet".