Ryan Cameron: I may run for office

After recovering from sepsis, DJ wants to make a difference.

Ryan Cameron, recuperating from sepsis, has been off the air on Majic 107.5/97.5 for several weeks but came back Monday to talk about the George Floyd protests and ponder the possibility of running for public office.

Cameron isn’t considering mayor or the House of Representatives. He wants to starts more grassroots.

“I don’t know what I’ll do,” he said. “School board, maybe City Council.”

He was born and raised in Atlanta, a hometown radio personality whose nickname became “The Ryan King.” He has been on the air locally for three decades on three different stations: Hot, V-103 and now Majic. He has been in-game announcer for the Atlanta Hawks for 15 years.

And on his various morning shows, he has consistently discussed major news events and scandal in Atlanta and nationwide since the early 1990s, including the Rodney King riots in Atlanta while he was a V-103 night jock.

If he does run for office and remains on the radio, there are federal rules that require “equal time” for opponents even if the radio host candidate never mentions the candidacy on the air.

So it’s possible Cameron would have to step down from his radio job if he were to run for office, said Mo Ivory, a formerV-103andWAOKhostwho ran for City Council in 2018 after she left radio but did not win. She worked with Cameron on the his morning show on V-103 in 2013 and 2014.

He’s not the first radio personality in Atlanta to consider politics. WSB consumer talk show host Clark Howard in 1997 was so angry with then-mayor Bill Campbell, he publicly considered running against Campbell. In the end, the likable Howard decided to stick with radio instead.