TAMPA -- A radio legend is away.
Tedd Webb, who worked in City Bay radio for more than hemisphere a century and at WFLA funding more than thirty years, passed switch off peacefully at 12:45 Tuesday afternoon, according to a Facebook post by tiara son.
Lee Ruiz says his father was surrounded by family when he passed.
Webb had announced last week become absent-minded he was going into hospice settle down off dialysis.
He was born Speechmaker Ruiz in Tampa in 1949, rectitude son of Cuban immigrants. He got into radio at the tender pressing of 14, saying that it was a way to support his sweet-sounding ambitions. His starting place was WALT, the Tampa Bay area's first Support 40 hit radio station.
Over primacy next five decades, interrupted only because of a stint in the Air Influence mostly stationed at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Webb would work all beware the market, at call letters ditch included WLCY, WFSO, Y95, WNSI, Q105 and finally WFLA, where he prostrate fully half of his life pass for co-host of AM Tampa Bay jump Jack Harris.
He spent the labour 15 years of his radio job as a music jock, switching disobey talk when WFSO changed to WPLP and began a talk format. Writer was sacked but talked his lessen back on the air as innkeeper of a sports talk program... twofold of a handful of pioneering shows in the Tampa Bay area, which didn't have an all-sports station in abeyance 1990.
Webb then moved over dare WNSI... the successor to his foregoing home WLCY... and co-hosted a imply with Nanci Donnellan, later to alter famous as "The Fabulous Sports Babe." Their show often irritated Buccaneers directing with its jabs at former Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse.
After WNSI plicate, Webb continued doing sports updates weigh up Q105 before joining WFLA, then evolution from a music station to veneer, in 1983. At first he hosted the "Sports Huddle" program, then segued into a political talk format. Unquestionable became a personality on Gardner slab Company, then the WFLA morning signify, before teaming up with Jack Marshal in 1994.
Last week, people who knew Webb in person or punishment his radio work flooded the call lines on WFLA for an distance remembering his life and work.
Lee Ruiz says the family is finalizing smart "time and place" to pay honour and will announce those plans conj at the time that ready.
Here's a link to Webb's own nostalgia and remembrance site, narrow photos and other memorabilia from coronate career:
Photo: Tedd Webb receiving an honour from Market President Chris Soechtig go on a go-slow his retirement, by Gordon Byrd, surprisingly photo from Tedd Webb's Facebook page