After Ross Peterson was let go by iHeartMedia during the company’s Q4 layoffs, Des Moines sports radio talent Travis Justice has left KXNO to reunite with his former morning co-host for The Rush, a new weekday streaming show on YouTube and social media.
Peterson started as a producer for Justice’s first morning show before becoming his co-host for The Morning Rush. After surviving a large-scale reduction in force in 2020, the duo was split up in November when Peterson was cut. Justice announced he was leaving the station in the last fifteen minutes of The Morning Rush on Friday, January 24, saying, “Since November 4, I’ve done a lot of soul searching.”
“It’s been a hell of a 14-and-a-half-year ride and the community that we’ve built here on The Morning Rush is absolutely amazing. I’m doing it this way because I knew that I wanted to end on my own terms,” he added, not mentioning his plans for the new show, which launched this morning.
Outside of social media, The Rush has a dedicated website and a local phone number for listener calls. It will run in the same two-hour timeslot as their old terrestrial show
iHeartMedia has yet to announce its plans, including whether The Morning Rush‘s new second voice Sean Roberts will take over the show or if something new will be created. The KXNO website still lists The Morning Rush on its schedule, but the show’s page on the website has been scrubbed.
