Being a known quantity in the Northeast and doing quality and reliable work in a good-sized market eventually earned the attention of a Big Network—the mighty NBC. There were others who contributed as well. There really was a team aspect to it. Campbell, who continues to review movies and does some performing at local stages while working on a memoir, became fast friends with Ryan who shared a similar devilish sense of humor. In addition to standing off-camera and whispering one-liners to Campbell and the others to crack them up on-air, Ryan once hacked the teleprompter introduction Campbell had written to be read by anchor Doreen Gentzler.
I just love that guy. Ryan laughs and shrugs his shoulders a bit. His wife is right: Ryan stays busy in his post-broadcast career as a doting grandfather on three nearby grandchildren and as an American Meteorological Society-certified consulting meteorologist, which brings him into courtrooms to offer expert testimony on cases involving weather-related issues.
They moved from Houston to Washington last year, much to the relief of the grandparents who are understandably fixated on the kids. The atmospheric scientist explains the effects of a warmer atmosphere on extreme events and how his grandchildren will probably not see as many snow days as the kids in the region before them. This profile was originally published in our April print issue. Want the magazine delivered straight to your door?
Subscribe here. The story begins with snow. Andy Ockershausen: Yeah. Bob Ryan: And they would work for different clients. And then they had a room, much larger than this, they called the smell room where all these little fragrances and essences. So, they had a commercial side, and then I was in the government contract side.
Back then it was … interested … is it a missile plume or is it a cloud? Andy Ockershausen: Is it an earthquake or military shock? Then to see if there was a way to distinguish between a missile plume and the clouds. Andy Ockershausen: Did you ever fly on the U2? Bob Ryan: I never did. Boy, it was something to watch them take off. Bob Ryan: Once they got off, boy, they just went vertical. So, who knows? For whatever reason … I practiced a couple of presentations on a shirt cardboard in front of my girlfriend, now wife, and she critiqued me.
And then I went down, and back then- Andy Ockershausen: Oh, did you? No, but I had big red hair. Those were the big red hair days, and plaid suits, and who knows why. I had a teletype, and I had a facsimile, and that was it to get my weather information. Andy Ockershausen: The air?
The regular TV guy? Did they have their own- Bob Ryan: No. Andy Ockershausen: You were it. Bob Ryan: That was it, because it was just a 10 to news. Andy Ockershausen: On one station, right?
Bob Ryan: Channel 56, and back then you had to have a special antenna to get- Andy Ockershausen: Right, because the big power was channel 5. Bob Ryan: Channel 5- Andy Ockershausen: 7 was a powerhouse.
Bob Ryan: Channel. Bob Ryan: Channel 4. Bob Ryan: … their license. Before the license. Andy Ockershausen: They were nationally known. They were producing stuff for… Bob Ryan: Yeah. For the radio, sure, yeah.
I think they were a number in the … was it the ETA, was it? Fred Cusick did the sports. Andy Ockershausen: Why did it not take off. Bob Ryan: Yeah, who knows. Everybody had left. So everybody was out. Bob Ryan: Yeah, I just zipped it back down. Bob Ryan: No! So I would do the mornings and a noon news with Natalie Jacobson, who was doing the noon news then, famous- Andy Ockershausen: In Providence?
Bob Ryan: No, in Boston. Andy Ockershausen: Oh, it was? Bob Ryan: No, I came back to Boston. Andy Ockershausen: On Channel 5? Bob Ryan: On Channel 5. Andy Ockershausen: CVB? Bob Ryan: CVB. Bob Ryan: Yes, yeah. Andy Ockershausen: I know the whole story because I was kind of in the middle.
My brother was the attorney for HDH, and they fought for two years not to lose that license, and then the people, they were all educators, you know, knew nothing about Broadcast.
They hired Bob. He was running New York. Bob Ryan: And wonderful people. Andy Ockershausen: He was an audio engineer, too, did you know that? Bob Ryan: Yes! Andy Ockershausen: Right! A genius. Knew nothing about broadcasting. Andy Ockershausen: They did a great job. Andy Ockershausen: They were right up to the wire.
Bob Ryan: And midnight, boom. It switched. Andy Ockershausen: The Supreme Court had to rule in that, you know. Bob Ryan: Switched over, and there it was. That was unheard of in the broadcasting industry, to lose your license and get zippo in return. Bob Ryan: Zero. What was that, the 20 million dollar lunch? Bob Ryan: Something like that.
Bob Ryan: Yes. For the grand prize of one million dollars, what color is the White House? Kevin: I know this, I know this. I know this. Radio Announcer: Five seconds. Kevin: Oh! Radio Announcer: Okay. Hello and congratulations. Kevin: Whoo! Andy Ockershausen: Worked for both.
You know, everybody got something out of it, Bob. That was a time when you were involved and we were involved… Bob Ryan: Chris Core gets to play that audio about once every six months when he gets bored… Andy Ockershausen: They never, never, ever stop laughing about that. They did that on a couple other occasions with things, because Bill would play the role … Chris would play the straight man, and Trumbull was the comic.
And it worked. But tell us about, how in the world did you get from the great radio … I mean, the great TVs … and people thought that what WCVB was going to do was impossible.
They did not lose. Bob Ryan: They did it. Washington, right? Bob Ryan: He was from Washington, and that was the beginning of a talk show. So I was getting up at 4, , and getting … and then, the network took over, ABC took over that seven to eight block, which was the precursor for Good Morning America, or… Andy Ockershausen: Right.
Andy Ockershausen: Little did you know. Bob Ryan: Little did I know! Bob Ryan: Yeah! And, three hours of news in the morning, so … but it worked, and then I did a Copeland and I switched, I did the six and eleven for a few years, and then got a call from Today Show. And the rest is, there we are. There we are! Andy Ockershausen: What a history! Bob Ryan: And everybody was happy. Andy Ockershausen: Talking about news … there was a time when radio, there was no radio station on the air 24 hours.
I think we broke the bonds when a show came on called Music Till Dawn, was sponsored by American Airlines. Andy Ockershausen: We did 24 hours of news, and one thing, we had a reporter on the street named Larry Krebs, and you phone in all night long, and it was unheard of, and it worked.
We suddenly became very popular, and we were not a news station. We had been music. But we shifted and got into news and weather.
Bob Ryan: And weather! And the times, and I think I did some late, late night when we were in the middle of a snowstorm or something. That's it. Birthday February Feb 21, It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.
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