Audacy has announced the impending retirement of KCBS San Francisco morning sports anchor Steve Bitker, effective this Friday.
To commemorate his final day on May 14, KCBS will air a tribute for Bitker and feature live interviews with several key figures in the sports world who have crossed his path over the many years, including members of the San Francisco Giants, Oakland A's fellow sports journalists and broadcasters.
"Without a doubt, Steve delights in his job. He is an exemplary broadcaster, a fastidious journalist and a revered Bay Area sports historian. But he is also a husband, father, doting grandfather and world traveler. Steve has a substantial bucket list, and he's decided it's time to tackle it - without the intrusion of an alarm clock and twice-per-hour deadlines," said KCBS Director of News and Programming Jennifer Klurfeld Seelig.
Bitker has been the KCBS morning drive sports anchor since April, 1991. He began his career as a sportswriter with the Redwood City Tribune during his last two years of high school. After graduating from Cal, he spent two years at KSFO as a news writer, then moved to Tokyo -- where he worked for three years as a news/sports anchor for JCTV (Japanese Cable Television), Japan's sole English TV station. Upon returning to the U.S., he was a news anchor/reporter for KNBR for five years, and the morning sports anchor there for two, before coming to KCBS.
Bitker was also the home radio play-by-play announcer for the minor league Sonoma County Crushers for seven seasons, and the backup radio play-by-play man for the Oakland Athletics for eleven years. He is the author of the 1998 book "The Original San Francisco Giants."
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