(Published August 2025)
Bob Phillips has inspired countless Texas-born or educated journalists to pursue more personable and touching storytelling in an all-Texas broadcast career spanning beyond five decades.
A Dallas native and SMU grad – bachelor’s AND master’s! – he was inspired by CBS journalist Charles Kuralt to pursue shooting feature stories for KDFW-TV Channel 4.
His initial work as a Dallas photojournalist grew into special storytelling segments and ultimately, the longest-running statewide syndicated feature reporting show in Texas broadcast history – “Texas Country Reporter.”
That grew into a separate half-hour weekend program which, after a little tweak to the title, he took statewide – on his own.
Over the next 42 years, Bob traveled the Lone Star state’s ranch roads and farm roads, the interstates and highways, rivers, lakes and coastline to showcase the ingenuity, talents, passions – and quirks! – of everyday Texans living extraordinary lives.
Along the way he met his wife Kelli, anchor at KFDM-TV Beaumont, and, together, they continued traveling the Texas countryside.
Bob and his wife, Kelli, recently retired from TCR, but now you can catch them on the Radio through “On the Road with Kelli and Bob,” syndicated on Texas State Networks.
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