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You can’t keep a good Ram down. Colorado State University is welcoming back Brian Roth who will reclaim the play-by-play role for CSU’s football and men’s basketball broadcasts, and serve as host of the Rams’ coaches’ shows.

Larson tells Radio Ink that Compass Media Networks has extended his agreement for syndication of The Lars Larson Show through 2023.

Content provider Mr. Master has appointed Maria Musaitef as Marketing Director. It's a newly created position at the company. Musaitef joins Mr. Master from Envisage Radio Group, where she helped launch the company as Director, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, and brought in 90 affiliates for Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown in the show's first year.

Q Country morning host, Chris Allinger won’t give up the kids. After doing his final “Walkin’ the Country” for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier’s Backpack Program, he said that was it. Well, that was it for that particular event. But now Allinger is back with “2 Steps To Fight Hunger.”

It was this week in 1996 that a new weekend program debuted for Rock Stations. hardDrive is celebrating its 20th anniversary on the air. The show’s original host and executive producer, Lou Brutus (pictured) and Roxy Myzal are still intact on the production team.

The hosts from ESPN Radio are ready to rumble, it seems. Beginning July 11, they will be taking over ESPN2’s weekday morning studio debate show First Take. A different duo or trio from ESPN Radio will face off each day and thrash out the day’s top stories. Molly Qerim will be the host as the fireworks go off every morning from 10 til noon. Here’s the schedule for the week...

Alpha Media WNGY-FM (Energy 102.3) will now be airing Brooke & Jubal in afternoon drive. The show also airs in Portland and San Antonio. Brooke has worked in morning radio for over 12 years and has hosted Top 40 radio’s first all-female morning drive show. Jubal Flagg is a standup comedian, radio host, television personality, and comedy writer.

Patrick Pendergast is the new Director of Sales of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance stations in Milwaukee. Pendergast will oversee sales for FM 102/1 (WLUM-FM), B93.3 (WLDB-FM), and Milwaukee’s True Oldies Channel (WZTI-AM).

United Stations Radio Networks has signed a deal with producers the Baka Boyz to handle the advertising sales in all the programs created, hosted, and distributed by the Baka Boyz. The programs airing now are the Baka Boyz All Star Hit Mix which is geared toward CHR and Rhythmic CHR, and the Baka Boyz Hip Hop Master Mix which is a more Urban program.

Sometimes-controversial political talk jock William J. Kelly’s The Citizen Kelly Show has been expanded to middays on AM 1590 WCGO. The Emmy award-winning producer and commentator starts his noon to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, shift this week in the Windy City.