“Al has been a tireless leader at Bloomberg for over two decades, first in radio and now in his wider broadcast role," Bloomberg Media CEO M. Scott Havens and Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait said in a memo obtained by The Times.
After entering both the Texas Business Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame, Mays stepped away from day-to-day operations of the company after suffering a stroke in 2005.
"You know what's gonna be required for that to happen? They need another plane to go missing. They need massive storms. Planes missing. Old school CNN. Wolf Blitzer's beard."
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."