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    Bay Area sportscaster Gary Radnich walks off the set after his first evening broadcast at the KRON TV studio in San Francisco on Thursday March 3, 2005. (Richard Koci Hernandez/Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    KRON-TV 4 sportscaster Gary Radnich delivers the 6'oclock sports news at KRON-4 studios in San Francisco CA Friday Feb. 18, 2005. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    KRON-TV 4 sportscaster Gary Radnich delivers the 6 o'clock sports news at KRON-4 studios in San Francisco CA Friday Feb. 18, 2005. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    Gary Radnich has announced his retirement from KRON-TV. (KRON-TV)

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    Bay Area sportscaster Gary Radnich applies a small amount of make-up before his first evening broadcast at the KRON TV studio in San Francisco on Thursday March 3, 2005. (Richard Koci Hernandez/Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    Bay Area sportscaster Gary Radnich, center, jokes with KRON employees, Jason Appelbaum, left, and Bob Bonaventura, right, after his first evening broadcast at the KRON TV studio in San Francisco on Thursday March 3, 2005. Radnich's style - the thing that's kept him on the air for 20 years - is that unlike most television anchors, he rarely works from a prepared story script. . .he adlibs most of his show. After his KNBR show, Radnich heads home, then to the studio of KRON TV, where he prepares for his early evening sports telecast. (RICHARD KOCI HERNANDEZ/MERCURY NEWS/SAN FRANCISCO/MARCH 3, 2005)

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    KRON-TV 4 sportscaster Gary Radnich, right, prepares the evening sports broadcast with his producer Jason Applebaum at KRON-4 studios in San Francisco CA Friday Feb. 18, 2005. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    KRON-TV 4 sportscaster Gary Radnich, right, prepares to deliver the 6:00 sports report as fellow anchor Tom Sinkovitz looks on at KRON-4 studios in San Francisco CA Friday Feb. 18, 2005. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

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    Bay Area sportscaster Gary Radnich spends some quality time with his family, wife Alicia, five-year-old Jolie, lower left, and 10-month-old Isabella in San Francisco on Thursday March 3, 2005. (Richard Koci Hernandez/Bay Area News Group Archives)

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Gary Radnich, the undisputed king of the sports airwaves in the Bay Area for the last three decades, announced his retirement from television on Tuesday.

Radnich, who rose to Bay Area fame throughout his 34-year career at KRON4 News with his good-natured, rarely serious, off-the-cuff observations, indicated his last TV segment will be around Sept. 1.

The 68-year-old San Jose native has hosted one of the nation’s top-rated mid-day sports shows on the radio at KNBR-680 AM for the past 24 years. He gave no indications he’d be stepping away from his radio show, for which he was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Radio Hall of Fame in 2010.

Radnich’s TV show has also been a long-time hit with fans. Three times the Associated Press has named his KRON segment the “Best Sportscast in California.”

Radnich first made a name for himself while growing up in San Jose as he became an All-American basketball player at Branham High. He went on to play collegiately at both Brigham Young and UNLV.

Before joining KRON4 in 1985, Radnich was the sports director at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. He was also the play-by-play announcer for Ohio State’s football broadcasts during that time.