Benjamin Franklin Grauer (June 2, 1908 – May 31, 1977) was an American radio and television personality, following a career during the 1920s as a child actor in films and on Broadway.

He was one of the four narrators, along with Burgess Meredith, of NBC's public affairs series The Big Story, which focused on courageous journalists.

During his radio career, Grauer covered nearly every major historic event, including the Morro Castle fire, the Second World War, the Paris Peace Conference and the US occupation of Japan.

Starting in 1939, Grauer covered these events for nearly forty years live from New York's Times Square.

From the mid-1950s until the early-1970s, Grauer's reports were part of the NBC television network's The Tonight Show, where he worked with Johnny Carson and prior to that, Jack Paar, and Steve Allen.

In 1948, Grauer, working with anchor John Cameron Swayze, provided the first extensive live network TV coverage of the national political conventions.

[5] In 1954, NBC began broadcasting some of their shows in living color, and in 1957, the animated Peacock logo made its debut.

It was Grauer who first spoke the now famous words, "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC", behind the Peacock graphic.

Several CD reissues have included those announcements to give the listener the feeling of hearing the NBC Symphony broadcasts exactly as they sounded when first aired.

This was done because the music tracks now heard are not taken from the actual 1948-52 television audio, which was very inferior, but from live, hi-fi magnetic tape sound recordings made of these same concerts at the studio.