{{Short description|American sports announcer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Gary Radnich | image = | birth_name = Gary Kelley Radunich<ref>After School: Santa Clara County High School Sports Blog, [http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/02/13/ccs-career-scoring-leaders-part-iii/ "He went by Radunich back in the late 1960s when he played at Del Mar and Branham."]</ref><ref name=FTLegends>California Births, 1905 - 1995, [http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461?c=search&first=&last=Radunich Gary Kelley Radunich] – Birth Date: 02/02/1950, County of Birth: Santa Clara (San Jose)</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|2|2}}<ref name=FTLegends/> | birth_place = San Jose, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = | occupation = Radio personality, sports anchor | alma_mater = Brigham Young University, UNLV | spouse = | children = }}
'''Gary Kelley Radunich''' (born February 2, 1950), known as '''Gary Radnich''', is an American 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.
==Biography==
===Early life=== 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.<ref name="fresh airtime">{{cite news|last=Pollak|first=David|title=Gary Radnich: A breath of fresh airtime|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11125355.htm|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=March 13, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318215007/http://www.knbr.com/garyRadnich/story2.html|archivedate=March 18, 2008|pages=A1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
His college career began at Brigham Young University on a basketball scholarship, and he transferred to UNLV after two years.<ref name="SF Examiner 1995">{{cite news | last=Adams | first=Bruce | title=Marathon Man: Gary Radnich is in search of even more challenges | url=https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/MARATHON-MAN-3151424.php | access-date=May 18, 2011 | newspaper=San Francisco Examiner | date=February 17, 1995}}</ref> While in Las Vegas he received notoriety for his purple El Dorado Cadillac, known as 'Raddy's Caddy'.<ref>{{Citation | title = That's Good Knowledge | url = http://www.thatsgoodknowledge.com/radnich.html | year=2007}}</ref>
===Broadcasting career=== 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.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Hartlaub | first1 = Peter | title = After 20 years as KRON's sports anchor, Gary Radnich still does it his way. Most of the time it's a slam dunk | newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle | date = March 17, 2005 | url = https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/After-20-years-as-KRON-s-sports-anchor-Gary-2722627.php | access-date = August 28, 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref name="SF Weekly">{{cite web | title = Best of San Francisco 2006: Best Sportscaster | work = SF Weekly | year = 2006 | url = http://bestof.sfweekly.com/bestof/award.php?award=172996 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://archive.today/20070812211736/http://bestof.sfweekly.com/bestof/award.php?award=172996 | archivedate = 2007-08-12 }}</ref>
In September 2018, Radnich retired from KRON TV,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Gary-Radnich-to-retire-from-KRON-broadcasting-job-13008590.php | title=Sportscaster Gary Radnich to retire from KRON after 33 years | first=Ron | last=Kroichick | date=June 19, 2018 | work=San Francisco Chronicle | accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref> and on June 22, 2019, at age 69, he retired from KNBR radio.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Gary-Radnich-longtime-Bay-Area-sports-14030385.php | title=Gary Radnich, longtime Bay Area sports broadcaster, retiring from KNBR | first=Jon | last=Schultz | date=June 23, 2019 | work=San Francisco Chronicle | accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article231864633.html | title=Bay Area sportscaster Gary Radnich announces his retirement from KNBR | first=Chuck | last=Barney | date=June 22, 2018 | work=The Sacramento Bee | accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref>
===Personal life=== 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.
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==External links== * [http://www.kron4.com/Gary/Radnich.aspx Gary Radnich at KRON] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504010120/http://kron4.com/Gary/Radnich.aspx |date=2012-05-04 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140701223613/http://www.knbr.com/page.php?page_id=131 Gary Radnich at KNBR] * [http://www.thatsgoodknowledge.com Official Website Of The Best 30 Minutes In Radio Featuring Gary Radnich & Tony Bruno] *{{BYU athlete|Gary-Radnich|m|bk}}
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