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
NBC Sports Bay Area (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS Bay Area) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. Headquart ...
'' (''formerly Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area'') from 2010 to 2019, and wrote columns for their website. He has also written national columns fo
espn.comas well as CBS
sportsline.com
Beginning his column-writing career for two now-defunct newspapers, ''
The National'' and the ''
Peninsula Times Tribune'', Ratto later became a staff writer then a columnist for the ''
San Francisco Examiner
The ''San Francisco Examiner'' is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863.
Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
'' and then the ''
San Francisco Chronicle'' before moving to TV. He has also co-hosted radio shows on both
KNBR and
KGMZ-FM. Ratto was a regular on the NBC Sports Bay Area show "The Happy Hour" before his termination from NBCSBA in late 2018. In 2019 he was a contributor at ''
Deadspin'' and wrote columns for the ''
San Jose Mercury News''. Ratto is one of 60 sportswriters whose ranking of college football teams makes up the
AP Poll.
Ratto is currently employed by KGMZ-FM, better known as 95.7 The Game, and is part of the 3–6 pm Monday thru Friday program ''Damon & Ratto'' with Damon Bruce. Ratto is also a staff writer for
Defector, a site started by former Deadspin staffers after that site’s mass resignations in 2019.
References
External links
Ratto archive at the CSNBA web siteCBS Sportsline Ratto pageRatto archive at SFGate.comInterview With Ratto About the 1989 San Francisco GiantsPollspeak.com Ray Ratto Week 1 ballot
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Sportswriters from California
Living people
American columnists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle people
1954 births