Ramsey, a Chicago native and graduate of Southern Illinois University, started his career as a sports anchor in Terra Haute, Indiana, and spent 17 years working for Tribune Broadcasting stations. He first came to Chicago in 1998 as program director of WGN and later was promoted to vice president and station manager.
In a statement Thursday, WGN officials said: “Bob Ramsey was an amazing director of programming and then station manager. A lifelong Sox fan, he was truly one of Chicago’s Very Own. We were shocked and saddened to hear the news of his passing.”
Ramsey left WGN in 2002 to serve as general manager of Fox affiliates KSWB in San Diego and KTXL in Sacramento before returning to Chicago to join Weigel Broadcasting as vice president and general manager of
WCIU-Channel 26 in 2011.
Two years later he was promoted to executive vice president of local media, overseeing broadcast operations in Chicago, Milwaukee and South Bend.
