Jamie Samuelsen, a long-term Detroit radio character, spent away Saturday night after an extensive fight with colon malignant growth. He was 48.
The Detroit News editorialist Bob Wojnowski reported Samuelsen's passing in a tweet Saturday for the benefit of the family. He is made due by his better half, Christy McDonald, and three kids.
Samuelsen was "encompassed by his brilliant family, and he went calmly," Wojnowski tweeted.
Samuelsen uncovered broadcasting live last Monday, just because, that he had been battling colon malignant growth for as long as 19 months. He noticed that his finding after a disease as of late constrained him to take some vacation days.
He co-facilitated the "Jamie and Stoney Show" with Mike Stone on 97.1 FM Ticket at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday.
"I was determined to have disease January of '19, as such a significant number of people around here. Doesn't make us interesting or unique or exceptional, however it is absolutely a gigantic gut punch for where you think your life is going," Samuelsen, who has been in and out of the emergency clinic the most recent couple of weeks, said broadcasting live Monday. "It confuses you, it causes you to reevaluate everything, it makes you embrace your children somewhat more tight, your loved ones somewhat more tight. It's a fight, and the fight goes on."
Samuelsen made his presentation on Detroit sports radio at WDFN 1130 out of 1994 preceding turning into a show have the next year. Samuelsen later moved to 97.1 The Ticket where he was a co-host of a night show with Wojnowski before in the end cooperating up on a morning show with Stone. He has been on air with Stone since 2016. He was additionally a supporter of the Detroit Free Press and Channel 2's SportsWorks show.
Samuelsen was a local of Lafayette, California, outside of San Francisco and an alum of Northwestern University.

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