Tim Maguire

  Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983)

Arthur Godfrey was a radio and television broadcaster and entertainer
who hosted two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television
mid-morning show through most of the decade, but by the early 1960s
he was only hosting an occasional TV special. Godfrey was one of the
early master commercial pitchmen, identified with many sponsors like
Lipton Tea. Before fame, he was a radio operator in the U.S. Navy for
four years.

Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast
from 1941 to 1957. It was one of broadcast history’s earliest
spin-off programs. The series was built around the character
Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a featured regular
of the NBC radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly
where the character was first introduced in the October 3,
1939 episode.

Robert Young and Jean Vander Pyl

The comedy series Father Knows Best began on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest,
it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife
Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The 
Anderson children were Betty (Rhonda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson), and
Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson).The program was sponsored through most of its
run by General Foods and was heard Thursday evenings until March 25,
1954. It made the transition to television that same year.

Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990)

Before Walter Cronkite, there was Douglas Edwards. He was chosen to
host CBS’s first nightly news broadcast from 1948 to 1962. The program
was later titled CBS Evening News. Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942,
eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast The World
Today as well as World News Today on Sunday afternoons. He worked
previously in radio in Atlanta, Georgia and Detroit, Michigan.

From left: Producer Don Hewitt and Douglas Edwards

Douglas Edwards’ Final CBS Broadcast, April 1, 1988  

 
  

                
                 Douglas Edwards on CBS Radio