Bob and Ray brought several characters with them from WHDH Boston when they were hired at NBC New York in July 1951, mainly Mary Margaret Mc...

Ed Murrow was of such towering stature in the news business, you’d think he couldn’t be replaced. But replaced he was when CBS boss Bill Pal...

1960 was a good year and a bad year for Bob and Ray. It was bad because CBS dumped their 15-minute Monday through Friday radio show on June...

Some fans of Bob and Ray like to engage in an exercise where they pick their favourite version of the twosome’s radio show. They’re all a l...

Fortune didn’t smile on too many cartoon studios in the early 1960s that tried to break into television. Hanna-Barbera had been the huge su...

Bob and Ray had seemingly countless time-slots and shows that it’s hard to keep up with them. I really liked their 15-minute shows on NBC s...

Were irreverent publicity handouts a big thing at one time? Jay Ward used to have his writing staff send out phoney programming advisors an...

Bob and Ray made fun of radio. Soap operas, crime shows, commercials, even station IDs. It got them from Boston to NBC in 1951. From radio, ...

Time for another Bob and Ray post. No introduction is needed other than this appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune , November 10, 1952. ...

Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding had to make some adjustments when NBC signed them to do a 15-minute daily radio show in 1951. Their exploits ...

Network radio wanted new talent, and they got it in Bob and Ray. The two first appeared on NBC on July 2, 1951 from 5:45 to 6 p.m. Pretty s...

Bob and Ray spent a great deal of their career wandering in the towered canyons of the New York City radio wilderness, going from network to...

Timing can be crucial if you’re a publisher of puffery. A fan magazine can invent a lovey-dovey story about your favourite couple, only to...