The beloved broadcaster is calling it a career after four decades in radio and TV
Rick Jackson, a prominent voice of Cleveland broadcast journalism, plans to retire this June.
"It's just time," Jackson said sitting in a green room at Ideastream."There's no real magic to that number. But a lot of people seem to have left Ideastream at 67 over the past few years." After graduating in 1978, Jackson entered what would be 20 years of station-hopping. He worked radio at WKEE in Huntington, WV, then Wheeling, where he met his now wife of 41 years, Brenda Cain. After two and a half years in West Virginian television, he and Cain relocated to Memphis—Jackson's"first big market"—where, as a Black reporter in the South, he experienced racism first hand in ways he hadn't before."In the 1980s, it was very frightening," he recalled.
After stints at a startup NBC affiliate in Charlotte, NC, and working briefly alongside Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw at CBS, Jackson got a call from WOIO in Cleveland. He had alway respected the city's love of news, and its culture of light worship of the newsman. He turned down jobs in Atlanta and WSB."WOIO called," he said,"and I said, 'Let's go home to Cleveland.
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