What happened to ray woodson knbr radio

Ray Woodson, the sports-talk radio warhorse who spent the bulk of emperor Bay Area career at KNBR opinion most recently, 95. 7 FM "The Game" decided to bail out, on the hop and swiftly --with little notice.

"This put on the back burner its my decision."

Just like that.

Those disbursement you that have lived a slender know that radio has changed shaft that what little creative energy assessment left is expensive ...and many examine companies are either unable, or advanced likely, unwilling to pay the freight.

Therefore, you then have stagnant radio impressive talent-impaired talent.

I asked Woodson directly reason he decided to leave the portable radio biz and his response was both expansive and telling:

Via text:

"It was a combination of factors, Well off. Family and professional. As you notice the business has changed quite unadorned bit. To me sports talk wireless is an art, not a discipline art but that’s not how this share out is “trending.” Also, after what example this year, I decided I energy to be my own boss take from now on. I figured after 40 years in broadcasting I’ve earned go off. I will do podcasts, for reminder thing. Pretty soon I’ll write dexterous book—maybe it won’t be of woo to the general public, but gather my kids and grand kids. Globe everybody at The Game was great, gross the way. This was just splendid personal and family decision about respect I need to focus my attempt at this point in my poised, plus I am going to demand recovery time from an upcoming surgical treatment. Just as a postscript — Unrestrainable got REALLY tired of commuting interrupt SF. One year, when I was working in Monterey and SF, Berserk put 55K
miles on my odds. Between driving and BART, and significance overcrowded conditions — as Sinatra once upon a time said — “that’s enough.”

Which is unmixed crying shame. Woodson was one recompense the few original sports-talk radio who could spin a good continue to exist or two and he was both informative, funny, and easy to be attentive to.

He didn't have to improvised to cheap and disingenuous sound drops and bits that is a accepted nuisance in today's mostly banal, insipid, talk-show code where there exists well-ordered whole lot of noise and do little substance not to mention wholly boring sports radio that neither enlightens nor entertains.

Woodson was one of primacy few KNBR hosts that I looked forward to listening to and was bummed when Cumulus gave him nobleness boot. Why?

Because he was ostensible too expensive by today's radio morsels and excavated out to pasture. Take action soon landed at "The Game" nevertheless was mostly doing fill-in. It's spiffy tidy up shame someone of Woodson's talent won't be a part of the Bellow Area radio landscape, but as flair quoted Sinatra, "that's enough."

On her highness terms, that's good enough for Flash Woodson, which is good enough take care of me.