Robert Arthur (radio announcer)

Robert "Bob" Arthur (June 21, 1921 – March 25, 1997) was a radio personality, a television newscaster and a motion picture actor. He is best remembered for partnering with Ken Minyard on the "Ken and Bob Company" morning radio program on KABC-AM (790) Los Angeles, California, from 1973 to 1990. The pair coined the popular term "EGBOK" meaning “everything’s gonna be OK.”^[1]

As an actor, Arthur had roles in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), True Confessions (1981) and Skin Deep (1989)^[2]

Born Joseph Arthur Prince in Kansas, Arthur studied journalism in college and began his career in Wichita. He was an anchorman at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico before coming to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work for KTLA/Channel 5. He later moved to LA's KNX radio, and after two years at KNX, he moved to LA's KABC radio in 1969 as a newsman.^[3] He retired in 1990, to devote more time to a project setting up care homes for Alzheimer's patients in Long Beach.^[4] Arthur died March 25, 1997, at his home in Albuquerque.^[5]

For their contribution to radio, Bob Arthur and Ken Minyard were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6808 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.