| Gary Radnich | |
| Birth Name: | Gary Kelley Radunich[1] [2] |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1950 |
| Birth Place: | San Jose, California |
| Occupation: | Radio personality, sports anchor |
| Alma Mater: | Brigham Young University, UNLV |
Gary Kelley Radunich (born February 2, 1950), known as Gary Radnich, is a retired radio and television host in the San Francisco bay area. He hosted The Gary Radnich Show which ran weekday mornings on KNBR radio, and was the lead sports anchor on KRON television.
Radnich was born and raised in San Jose, California to Bill and Evelyn Radunich. He was an All-American Basketball player at Del Mar High School and Branham High.[3]
His college career began at Brigham Young University on a basketball scholarship, and he transferred to UNLV after two years.[4] While in Las Vegas he received notoriety for his purple El Dorado Cadillac, known as ("Raddy's Caddy").
Radnich started his broadcast career at KVVU in Henderson, Nevada. From there, he had stints at KTXL in Sacramento, California and KMPH-TV in Fresno, California. From 1982 to 1985, Radnich served as the sports director at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, where he also called Ohio State Buckeyes football games.
Radnich was the sports director at KRON-TV from 1985 to 2018. He was also a talk show host at KNBR radio from 1992 to 2019, hosting a three-hour show each weekday.
In 2010 Radnich was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. He has been honored three times by Associated Press, for the Best Television Sports cast in California. Ann Killion of the San Jose Mercury News called him "the biggest name in Bay Area Broadcasting."
In 2006 and 2007, the SF Weekly named Radnich "Best Sportscaster", noting that his broadcasts are "spontaneous" and that he "knows sports".[5]
In September 2018, Radnich retired from KRON TV,[6] and on June 22, 2019, at age 69, he retired from KNBR radio.[7] [8]
Radnich lives in San Francisco with his wife, former KRON producer Alicia Radnich. Together they hosted a Friday night "Letters to the Editor" segment at KRON. They have three children, Jolie, Isabella and Spencer. Radnich also has three grown children, Kelly, Douglas and Stephanie.
His mother, Evelyn, was featured on ABC's Nightline, in a show about retirement communities.