For the first time in 39 years, longtime Houston pro football writer John McClain won’t be heard on the city’s sports talk radio stations, The Houston Chronicle is reporting.
McClain, who retired in 2022 after 47 years at the newspaper, was laid off by Audacy's SportsRadio KILT 610 AM. The 72-year-old appeared on the station six times a week, wrote four weekly columns for the station’s website and hosted a podcast with 610's Sean Pendergast. McClain was on the “Payne & Pendergast” morning show for the last time Wednesday. He will record one more podcast episode with Pendergast on Thursday and make his station farewell on “The Drive” with Clint Stoerner and Ron Hughley at 4 p.m. Friday.
McClain became a regular on Houston’s airwaves in 1985 talking about the Oilers on KTRH (740 AM), where he remained for 15 years before making the leap to 610 where he had been for the past 24 years.
When he retired from the newspaper business two years ago, McClain said his plan was to continue doing radio for one more Texans season before “riding off into the sunset,” but he just couldn’t stay away.
“I certainly didn’t do this with 610 for the money, but I was having a blast,” he said.
McClain has plenty to keep him busy. Aside from being active on Twitter for his more than 151,000 followers, he’ll still be making weekly radio appearances for stations in Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Las Vegas, Nashville, Tenn., and Knoxville, Tenn.
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