Gil Gross, Host
Gil Gross is an award winning radio journalist who has reported the news
to millions of Americans and interviewed pop culture icons and heads-of-state
alike.
In addition to hosting Real Estate Today, Gil shares his broad knowledge
of local, national, and international issues weekday afternoons with listeners
across the Bay Area on San Francisco’s legendary KGO AM 810. As a newsman
and humorist he has also combined his talents as Paul Harvey’s chief substitute
at ABC and as the main substitute for Charles Osgood at CBS.
A journalist for more than three decades, Gil became the youngest anchorman
in ABC News history at age 23. All the while he worked as morning news
anchor on WLS Chicago. He went on to win a string of investigative and
journalism awards for international reporting covering major events of
our time from 9/11 to the War in Iraq.
He has worked at iconic New York radio stations such as WABC, WCBS, WOR, and hosted his own national program for a number of years on CBS Radio.
Gil lives with his wife, actress-singer Rhoda Bodzin, and their son, Spencer Darrow Gross, three cats and an ever-growing collection of over ten thousand LPs and CDs.