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Lance Zierlein and John Granato, whose top-rated morning show led Houston’s sports talk radio market for years, will reunite to take over the morning drive slot on ESPN 97.5 FM from 7:00 to 9:30 a.m. each weekday, beginning today.

Washington, DC, with a start date of November 27. In this role Bailey will assist in overseeing the station’s on-air and music programming. She will report to Jeff Kapugi, Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia Washington, DC. Bailey returns to DC from WZTB in Tampa

Lulu & Lala have been named on-air evening show hosts at Hot Adults Contemporary Hits station 93.9 MIA/Miami, effective Monday, December 4. While keeping their WKTU and Southwest Florida’s New Y100.1 evening host positions, Lulu & Lala will add Monday through Friday, 7 p.m.-midnight, on 93.9 MIA.

It's one of the stations iHeartMedia picked up in the swap with CBS/Entercom before that deal closed. The Classic Rocker will now be programmed by Chris Tyler. Tyler most recently served as PD for iHeartMedia Cleveland at WMMS and KISS-FM.

FOX News Channel has signed nationally syndicated radio talk show personality Mark Levin as host of Life, Liberty & Levin, a new weekend primetime program debuting in February 2018, announced Suzanne Scott, President of Programming.

McGinn has been named new afternoon drive personality (3-7 p.m.) on Beasley's MAGIC 98.3 in Somerset New Jersey. The radio veteran was most recently heard doing weekends on 92.3 AMP Radio in New York.

iHeartMedia Baltimore has hired Francesca Presti as the new co-host for the Laurie DeYoung Morning Show on Country station 93.1 WPOC, effective December 4. The show broadcasts weekdays from 5–10 a.m. Presti will join current hosts Laurie DeYoung and Jeff St. Pierre.

Gow Media is taking former NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury out of his local show on 97.5 FM in Houston to focus his energies exclusively on his national radio and TV show. The Sean Salisbury Show is heard weekdays on the SB Nation Radio Network from 4-8 p.m. ET.

Sun Broadcast Group has announced that Shelby Wood Wasicki has joined the company as National Account Manager. In her role with Sun, Wood Wasicki will work with the Sales Department, focused on products including Shazam For Radio, The Hit List with Fitz, Country Fried Mix with DJ Sinister, and others.

ESPN Radio’s new morning drive program, Golic and Wingo, hosted by Mike Golic and Trey Wingo, will debut Monday (6–10 a.m. ET) on ESPN Radio and will initially be simulcast on ESPN2, before moving to its simulcast home on ESPNU in the spring.