Bob McClay

Position: News Reporter/Anchor

Years with the company: I've been with the company for three-and-a-half years. I started on January 2, 2006.

As a general assignment reporter, I tell my wife that I never know what I'm going to do on any given day. As an example, one day I was inside the Maricopa County jail looking at a bat that the inmates had adopted as a pet….and seeing Sheriff Joe Arpaio send an inmate to solitary confinement for disrespecting him. One hour later, I was in Jerry Colangelo's office in US Airways Center interviewing him on how NBA teams need to recruit players from other countries in order to compete. I have several days like that, and that's one of the things I love about the job.

Education: I was born in San Antonio, Texas, but we moved to Phoenix when I was one-year-old in 1957. I grew up here and graduated from Alhambra High School and attended Phoenix College.

Family: I am married to my wife of 14 years, Rene', who is a librarian in the Washington school district. During free time, I may be found playing basketball in the driveway with my nine-year-old son, Devin. He's also keeping me busy with school, Little League, and playing in chess tournaments around the Valley.

Favorite food: Lots of favorite food, but our favorite restaurant is Fajitas. (Gaydos asks me every week whether I went there this weekend.) The answer: Every Sunday after church. Beef taco and cheese enchilada al a carte…with chips and their queso.

Favorite spot in Arizona: The Little America Hotel in Flagstaff.

Favorite news memory: We have to go back to October 15, 1979. I was a country music air personality at KROP Radio in Brawley, California, when we had a 6.7 earthquake. Thankfully, there were no deaths and only minor injuries, but the entire community was pretty freaked out and listening to the station on their transistor radios. I would not want to go through an earthquake again, but it sure was a great night to work in radio and see how it can make a difference in people's lives.

Favorite movie: Lots of them..but I always say my favorite is 'Cool Hand Luke.'

First job: Working as a stringer for 'The Arizona Republic' at high school football games. My first real job was flipping burgers at the old Sandy's Hamburgers at 51st Avenue and Indian School Road. My first radio job was as announcer at KALJ radio in Yuma in 1977.

First concert: Doug Oldham gospel concert in the 1970s at the old East High School in Phoenix.

Favorite sports team: Phoenix Roadrunners minor league hockey. My dad took me to a game when I was in grade school, and I was hooked. I wanted to be a radio hockey play-by-play man. I used to take my cassette recorder and sit up in the rafters of the Coliseum and do play-by-play. It was great later in life to also take my son to Roadrunners games. Too bad the team just folded, I'll miss them. (Going to the Coyotes is fun, but they're not "my" team.)

Outside interests: My family and I are active in our church - Northern Hills Community Church in Phoenix. We enjoy going to movies, sporting events, and like to vacation at the Beach Cottages in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. And I love to play catch, basketball, football with my son.