Travis Rodgers is a sports talk radio personality on
Los Angeles
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ESPN
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affiliate
KSPN (AM)
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. He was the host of the
Yahoo! Sports Radio
SportsMap is a sports radio network that is distributed by Gow Media.
The SportsMap Radio Network supplies its network affiliates with a 24-hour schedule of sports programming, including call-in shows and sports updates. Over its history, through ...
program, ''Travis Rodgers Now,'' which aired weekdays 12-2pm EST. He also co-hosted the
KLAA 830 AM program ''ESPN Morning Show'' with Kelvin Washington. Prior to his radio shows, he was the producer of the nationally syndicated
Jim Rome Show
''The Jim Rome Show'' is a sports radio talk radio, talk show hosted by Jim Rome. It airs live for three hours each weekday from 9 a.m. to noon Pacific Time Zone, Pacific Time. The show is produced in Los Angeles, radio syndication, syndicated ...
and the
ESPN
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television show
Jim Rome is Burning
''Jim Rome Is Burning'' (originally titled ''Rome Is Burning'' and often abbreviated as ''JRIB'') is a sports conversation and opinion show hosted by Jim Rome. Debuting on May 6, 2003, as ''Rome Is Burning'', it was originally a weekly show in pri ...
.
Early life
Travis Rodgers grew up in
Arcadia, California
Arcadia is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located about northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. It contains a series of adjacent parks consisting of th ...
. He graduated from
Arcadia High School. He attended
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, where he graduated with a BS in Political Science. He pitched for the UCSB baseball team for four seasons.
Radio career
Rodgers was hired to work for the Los Angeles radio show ''The Jim Rome Show'', becoming the producer in 1996. Through the efforts of Rome and Rodgers working together, they were able to syndicate the program, eventually reaching more than 200 affiliates in the United States and Canada.
After it was announced that he was moving on 'to bigger and better things' in 2009 (Rodgers later acknowledged that he was fired), he was hired in 2010 by
KGOW
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1560 AM, in Houston. At the beginning of 2011, he added a national program with Sporting News Radio which became Yahoo Sports Radio in September of that year, and was voted Best Sport Talk Host of 2011 by the Houston Press.
In 2012, Rodgers moved his program to
KLAA 830 and began ''The Travis Rodgers Morning Show'', based in
Anaheim, California
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, and soon after KGOW dropped his local Houston program. Rodgers maintains his Yahoo! Sports Radio show as well as his local KLAA programming from 6–9 am PT, (his first national broadcast hour is also carried on KLAA from 9–10am PT).
Rodgers's local program is advertised as "the only live, local morning sports show in the Los Angeles market".
However, as of 2015 due to low rating, the show was discontinued.
Travis Rodgers then co-hosted ESPN LA's Afternoons with Marcellus & Travis. He also does event adjacent programming for the Los Angeles Lakers & Rams. On September 4, 2018, he moved to mornings as co-host with
Keyshawn Johnson
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He played college football for the University of Southern Calif ...
and LZ Granderson, also on ESPN 710.
Travis Rodgers Now
Rodgers considers his new show a blend of pop culture and sports, in that order. Rodgers varies from the normal sports talk format in several ways. Rodgers prefers to use Twitter over traditional phone calls or emails; he encourages listeners to tweet the show to comment on the issues of the day and reads tweets he finds interesting, insightful, or funny.
One of Rodgers' regular guests is his friend Brian Beckner; he joins The show for a weekly segment or two entitled "The Friday Facts." Rodgers has stated on the air that his conversations with Beckner are a highlight of the show.
''Travis Rodgers Now'' is podcast a
Yahoo! Sports Radio Podcasts along with the other YSR shows.
The national show can be streame
Yahoo! Sports Radiofrom Noon to 2pm ET.
Beginning in 2012, Rodgers held hi
Big Fan Bracket tournament, in which he pitted all the things of which he considered himself a "big fan:" mostly, but not exclusively, models and actresses. The first winner was
Dominique Sachse.
See also
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Yahoo! Sports Radio
SportsMap is a sports radio network that is distributed by Gow Media.
The SportsMap Radio Network supplies its network affiliates with a 24-hour schedule of sports programming, including call-in shows and sports updates. Over its history, through ...
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KLAA AM
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KGOW
KGOW (1560 AM) is a Vietnamese language terrestrial full service radio station based in Houston, Texas, United States, owned by Gow Media, LLC. KGOW's programming schedule is leased to a third party group that utilizes the broadcast day to air ...
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The Jim Rome Show
''The Jim Rome Show'' is a sports radio talk show hosted by Jim Rome. It airs live for three hours each weekday from 9 a.m. to noon Pacific Time. The show is produced in Los Angeles, syndicated by CBS Sports Radio, and can be heard on affilia ...
References
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball players
American sports radio personalities
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)