From 1965, he worked in the field of public broadcasting as a producer, host, station manager, engineer, teacher, writer, and consultant.
[4] He attended the University of California at Berkeley where he received a BA in Linguistics with a minor in Mathematics, which he did not complete until 1973.
[3] Unhappy with his lonely life as an engineer in a cubicle at IBM, he volunteered at WBAI – a listener-supported radio station in New York City.
[2] His morning shows, like those of late night's Bob Fass and Steve Post, became the archetypes of the station's free-form style, which became the precursor to much of the alternative FM radio programming which started in the 1960s and 1970s.
[10] After a five-year absence from New York City airwaves, Josephson returned in 1989 with Modern Times, a two-hour talk show on WNYC that also aired in California and Iowa and ran to 1993.
[13] He developed and produced 26 half-hour public radio shows called Classic Bob & Ray which surveyed their entire career.
[5] With the help of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, Josephson amassed a large recording-tape library of 1970s and 1980s "talking machine sounds" such as phone services like The Big Apple Report and The Story Lady as well as other kinds of recorded voices, which Josephson found so disturbing that he titled his project Vox Inhumana.