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| Ray Pietz |
Ray Pietz doesn’t see it as retirement. He likes to call it
a sequestration.
“I’m actually just not providing some services anymore,”
said Pietz, known across the mid-valley as Radio Ray.
Although he still will provide sports coverage, special
features, commentary and production Pietz will stepped down from his 14-year
stint on the Morning Update show at KGAL on May 31, ending a 40-year run as an on-the-air personality, according to the Albany Democrat-Herald.
His career wasn’t exactly planned. After leaving the service
Pietz, 67 headed west from his home in Buffalo , N.Y. to see California .
It was supposed to be a visit.
“I had always meant to return,” Pietz said. “My car broke
down in Texas and I had to get a job when I
got to California
to pay for it.”
While in San
Francisco , Pietz heard an ad for the Ron Bailey School
of Broadcasting. It seemed a better option than college and “a lot of
philosophy courses”.
Pietz took to broadcasting immediately. After graduating he
applied for a job in New Jersey
hoping to go back home. Pietz gave himself the Radio Ray moniker and started
working at KRSB.
In 1977 he was lured to Eugene
where he worked for three different stations before moving to Corvallis
and starting a 27-year career in the mid-valley with KLOO and eventually KGAL
1580 AM in Lebanon , OR
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