Greg Jarrett had a lengthy career as a reporter for KGO Radio, first joining the station in 1986. In 1994, he left to spend a few years as a staff correspondent for ABC News, returning to KGO in 2000. Greg was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1952. His first radio job was as football play-by-play announcer for KANE-FM in Louisiana, while he was a high school senior.
In 1991, Jarrett reported for KGO-AM and KGO-TV from Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, also filing reports for the ABC Radio Network. In 1993, Jarrett reported from Sarajevo, where mortar fire came through the window of his hotel room while he was covering the conflict elsewhere.v In 2003, he was an embedded journalist assigned to the Purple Foxes U.S. Marines helicopter squadron in Iraq. Along with many of the staff at KGO, Greg Jarrett was laid off in January 2009 by Citadel Communications.
After a stretch at Chicago’s WGN, Greg joined Bloomberg Radio in 2013 to co-host the Bloomberg Best program.