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FOX Sports Radio has renewed its contract with sports personality Clay Travis. Under the multi-year agreement, Travis will continue in his current role as host of the network’s morning drive program, Outkick The Coverage with Clay Travis. The show is now heard on about 300 stations.

Eagan has been a staple of the Indianapolis airwaves for nearly four decades, but he’s decided to call it a day. He’ll be retiring July 20. Eagan started at Emmis Communications in 1981.

A Detroit-based morning show will be piped into Fort Myers starting this week to replace the recently canceled Bubba The Love Sponge on rocker WXRK. WRIF-FM's Dave & Chuck the Freak Morning Show will now be simulcast weekday mornings.

Rodrigo Margain has been appointed Vice President of Sales & Business Development Mexico for Entravision Communications. He will report to Claudia Macias, Executive Vice President of National Sales, and be based in Mexico City.

William Puig of Homestead, Florida is accused of operating an illegal radio station from a commercial property on 92.1-FM and a company called Rockaway154 is accused of operating a pirate station from a residential property on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn at 93.7-FM.

The Nebraska Broadcasters Association of Broadcasters will welcome Dent Otradovsky into its Hall of Fame on August 14 in Lincoln, during the 84th Annual NBA Convention. Otradovsky is the owner and GM of KVSH-AM in Valentine -- the only station he's worked for in his 49-year radio career. He began at KVSH in 1969 as a DJ. 

Hubbard's WWFD (820-AM) "The Gamut" in Washington, DC has turned off its analog signal and is now all digital. The station has turned to a partnership with HD Radio to broadcast in digital (the format is a music station playing "A to Z and everything in between"). PD and station engineer Dave Kolesar says AM needs to start trending in this direction.

On Monday, Entercom relaunched Fresh 102.7 as NEW 102.7 FM in New York. The station (WNEW), will remain a Hot AC format. Additional announcements regarding the new programming lineup will be made shortly.

Listeners from Hubbard's “Real Rock Radio” KSHE-95 FM in St. Louis turned out in large numbers for one of the nation’s largest and longest running blood drives - the 34th Annual KSHE Summer Blood Drive, held July 6th and 7th. More than 2,000 donors participated in the two-day event, held in nine locations across the St. Louis metropolitan region.

Our thanks to Rod Schwartz for introducing us to Dr. James DeVleming, an optometrist in Pullman, WA. DeVleming has been doing a series of informational features called "Ask Dr. DeVleming" on a daily basis for over 20 years now. Those features have helped DeVleming establish himself as the eye care authority in town. As you can hear in this sample, he rarely says "Come see me." His approach to marketing is to: "Talk to your eye care professional," a very counter-intuitive, and effective, way to advertise. Our weekly advertiser success stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media.