Since the order of their names wasn't important to the two, they agreed to the change.[2] (Alex Barris later recalled that they had a CBC office with two doors — one read "Wayne & Shuster", the other was "Shuster & Wayne".)[4] Their popularity rapidly grew and CBC changed the name of their radio programme to The Wayne & Shuster Show.[9] By 1950, their Canadian weekly audience numbered 3 million.[4] They also began to make a name for themselves in the U.S. when they were hired to make a radio network series to replace William Bendix's The Life of Riley while it was on summer hiatus in 1947.[3]:144