WKBW’s longtime Anchor Keith Radford has been talking about retirement for years now.

Now, he says that he is really going to retire, for real this time.

Radford says he will retire in June 2021, following a 33-year career with WKBW.

Radford’s run at WKBW was an interesting one. He took over for the legendary Irv Weinstein and had massive shoes to fill that he, nor anyone else could possibly do.

With Weinstein at the helm of WKBW’s Eyewitness News, it was one of the top-rated newscasts in the entire country. In its heyday, WKBW was owned by Cap Cities and was not only the blowtorch in Buffalo but the entire northeast.

When Weinstein retired, the company was run by Granite Broadcasting and with Radford as the main Anchor, the station went from first to worst in the market.

The drop was not Radford’s fault, it was Granite and then General Manager Bill Ransom that cratered the mighty station. But, Keith Radford was the face on the newscast as the great station become a bottom feeder.

Granite sold the station to Scripps, but WKBW remains in last place in the ratings.

Scripps is a much better company and has infused some much-needed money into the struggling station, but so far, WKBW has not recovered from what Granite did to it.

Now, Keith Radford who has signed a series of one-year contracts says that this time he is done.

Of course, like many TV news anchors, Radford is not leaving in two weeks, or at the end of the month. Nope, he will be sticking around until June of 2021, when he will then finally retire.

Maybe.