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Ray Ratto has been a San Francisco Bay Area sportswriter since the 1970s and a sports columnist since the 1980s. A lifelong resident of Alameda, California , Ratto was a Senior Insider for the TV station NBC Sports Bay Area ( formerly Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area ) from 2010 to 2019, and wrote columns for their website.
The show premiered on April 6, 2009 along with the news show (Sportsnet Central). Like the launch of CSN Bay Area itself a year earlier, this was intentionally set at the same time as the start of the baseball season. The show is thought to be the first of its kind in the Bay Area.
In 2017, Johnson began hosting The Happy Hour, a conversational discussion sports program with media personalities Greg Papa and Ray Ratto; [12] [13] The Happy Hour was canceled at the end of 2018 with the airing of its final episode on December 21. [14] In 2019, she hosted the pre-game and post-game programs for the San Francisco Giants. [15]
Damon Matthew Bruce (born March 25, 1975) [1] is an American sports radio host who hosted the Damon and Ratto (with Ray Ratto) on KGMZ-FM "95.7 the Game" in San Francisco, California. The Duo was replaced in a station shuffle in March 2023.
CSN Bay Area was also home to the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball franchise until the end of the 2008 season, when the team's games also moved to CSN California; similarly, CSN Bay Area was the home of the NHL's San Jose Sharks until the end of the 2008–09 NHL season when their games also moved to Comcast SportsNet California. CSN Bay ...
Gregory Charles Papa (born October 10, 1962) [1] is an American sportscaster, currently employed as the radio play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers.He has also broadcast for the Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors, Oakland Athletics, San Antonio Spurs, Oakland Raiders and San Francisco Giants during his career.
The station has long been a home for arena and indoor football. A vast array of announcers participated in San Jose SaberCats broadcasts, including Tim Roye, Bob Fitzgerald, Ray Woodson, Keena Turner, George Atkinson, and Troy Clardy. In 2020, KNBR via KTCT began to broadcast games of the Bay Area Panthers. Scott Reiss is the voice of the Panthers.
The networks were originally established as Comcast SportsNet (CSN), a unit of Comcast's cable television business, beginning with a network in Philadelphia which launched in 1997. Their operations were aligned with the national NBC Sports division following the 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal by Comcast.