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• Entercom’s WFAN (Sports Radio 660/101.9)/New York will bid a very public farewell to longtime afternoon host Mike Francesa today as he does his show from New York’s Paley Center For Media in front of a live audience. Media members are invited to attend this special show and to interview the sports talk legend onsite prior to Francesa’s second to last show for WFAN, closing the book on a remarkable 30-year run. One-on-one media interviews will happen between 11:15am and 12:15pm, and Francesca’s show will roll live from 1-6:30pm.

The Paley Center for Media is located at 25 West 52nd Street in New York. Members of the press can request interviews by contacting Jennifer Morales at Jennifer.Morales@entercom.com.

• Cumulus News-Talk WLS-AM 890/Chicago announced a revised personality line-up for 2018 — beginning January 1, The Chris Plante Show, nationally syndicated by Westwood One, will air live on WLS-AM weekdays from 9-11am, followed by the Premiere-syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show, which returns to a live feed from 11am-2pm weekdays.

Peter Bolger, OM/PD of WLS-AM 890, said, “Listeners made it very clear they wanted to hear Rush Limbaugh live. People want to call in to the show. And in this busy news cycle, it’s important he talk about what’s happening in real time.”

Marv Nyren, VP/Market Manager of Cumulus Media Chicago commented, “With the addition of Chris Plante, I’m pleased that we have great continuity between the end of Big John and Ramblin’ Ray‘s show at 9, and the start of Rush at 11. It just makes good sense.” Plante remarked, “I look forward to being the Washington embed, giving a firsthand description of what’s happening in Washington and what it can mean to my hometown of Chicago, where I grew up listening to WLS!”