While a student at San Francisco State, Saatsaz was hired by KNBR as a programming intern. Saatsaz quickly impressed management, and immediately after graduating college was hired full-time, first as producer for The Razor and Mr. T and a short time later was promoted to Executive Producer for The Rick Barry Show. It was during this time that Saatsaz began his on-air career, being brought on for various bits and special segments. During this time, Saatsaz thought up the idea of an action sports radio talk show, and together with an old friend and roommate from San Luis Obispo, Steve Blankenship, they created The Extreme Scene, which debuted on KNBR 1050 in August 2003. Their first guest was Kelly Slater, who came in-studio to promote his book Pipe Dreams. Former KNBR producer Tony Rhein was originally part of the show, but backed out last minute because he didn't want to sacrifice time from playing music. A short time after the debut of The Extreme Scene, Saatsaz was asked by KNBR management to write a blog on the station's website about action sports. The blog quickly drew a following, and even drew the ire of skier Jonny Moseley, who was called "Jonny Sellout" in one of Saatsaz's blogs because an event Moseley was hosting called ICER AIR decided to start charging people for attendance. The two quickly resolved their differences, and Moseley has come on his radio show many times since then. Saatsaz's blog also drew the attention of action sports industry editors, including an action sports website started by AOL called Lat34.com. As a freelance writer, Saatsaz conducted exclusive interviews with big-name athletes like Tony Hawk. Saatsaz wrote for the site for a year and was promoted to Senior Editor before joining Fuel.TV as a writer, where his stories drew the highest amount of traffic on the site. During this time, Saatsaz was also hired to write stories for Future Snowboarding Magazine. Saatsaz eventually left Fuel.TV and was hired by USA Today's action sports website BNQT, where his stories once again drew the website's highest traffic numbers. The John London Not Just Sports Show was cancelled after three years, but Saatsaz was kept on by KNBR as a Senior Producer and was promoted to Creative Director in March 2007. During this time Saatsaz became KNBR's main fill-in sports anchor, in addition to filling in as host of Sportsphone 680. Saatsaz founded a surf shop/bookstore/art gallery in San Francisco called San Francisco Surf Company, wrote columns for The Huffington Post, wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, and USA Today, authored a book called Dogwild & Board: Stories, Interviews and Musings from a Surf Journalist and hosted various nationally syndicated action sports radio talk shows including The Extreme Scene and WaXed.
