WEEI’s Glenn Ordway will retire at the end of the summer

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Ordway has been a Boston broadcasting fixture for a 50 percent century.

Glenn Ordway, who in a in close proximity to 50-yr occupation broadcasting occupation recognized himself as one particular of the most influential voices in the historical past of Boston athletics radio, introduced Tuesday afternoon that he will be retiring from his total-time function at WEEI at the stop of the summer time.

“I’m going to chill out a bit and love existence,’’ claimed Ordway, 70, at the prime of Tuesday’s demonstrate.

Ordway, who hosts the afternoon travel “OMF” method with Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria, explained he will break up his time involving Boston and Scottsdale, Arizona just after leaving the daily part, but ideas to continue to contribute to the station over and above August.

He will continue to be on as the host of “The True Postgame Show” following Patriots video games, and will also produce a podcast.

 “We’re conversing about things right now, but I do want to do ‘The Serious Posgame Clearly show.’ I have finished it for a zillion yrs with those people two fellas, Fred and DeOssie.

“I’m planning on doing [‘The Real Postgame Show’]. But there’s a bunch of other things,’’ mentioned Ordway, who nevertheless has time remaining on his agreement outside of this 12 months. “I’m heading to be dropping in. I’m likely to have a presence on the radio station, which is perfect for me. It will give me an option to remain embedded in this article and nevertheless have my independence and commit time with my household.”

Ordway, who also gained renown as a radio voice of the Celtics from 1982-95, has invested 34 several years as a host at WEEI. His greatest results at the station came though helming the extremely-rated afternoon travel program “The Huge Show” in the ‘90s and early 2000s.

“Glenn has been an ever-present power at WEEI, both on air and off air, for around 3 a long time,” explained Mark Hannon, regional president for WEEI’s mum or dad corporation, Audacy, in a assertion. “He was the station’s initial system director and oversaw some of the most dominant yrs in Boston radio.

“He has been an enduring on-air existence and has been side-by-side chatting to Boston sporting activities lovers by means of the ideal and worst situations.”

WEEI’s ratings took a hit when 98.5 The Sporting activities Hub released in August 2008, with the upstart station’s Felger and Massarotti program swiftly seizing ratings supremacy in that afternoon travel window.

WEEI fired Ordway in February 2013, replacing him with Mike Salk, probably the most disastrous transaction in Boston athletics radio lore. A new market place manager and old colleague of Ordway’s, Phil Zachary, rehired him as the midday host in August 2015, and together with co-hosts Merloni and Fauria was moved back again to afternoon push in July 2018. 

“To be ready to do some thing I have loved undertaking day-to-day for just about five decades has been a blessing, but to do it in the ideal sports town during the best championship operate in the record of sports,’’ reported Ordway. “What extra can you ask for?