{"id":714339,"date":"2026-06-04T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714339\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:10","slug":"5-longest-tenured-sports-radio-hosts-in-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714339\/","title":{"rendered":"5 longest-tenured sports radio hosts in Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"The Ticket Sportradio hosts (from left) Donovan Lewis, Corby Davidson and Craig Miller speak on air during Ticketstock 2016 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas on Feb. 20, 2016. (Rose Baca\/The Dallas Morning News)\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ticket Sportradio hosts (from left) Donovan Lewis, Corby Davidson and Craig Miller speak on air during Ticketstock 2016 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas on Feb. 20, 2016. (Rose Baca\/The Dallas Morning News)<\/p>\n<p>Rose Baca, The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a sports radio host in Dallas, you pretty much never run out of things to talk about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-channels-pixel.ex.co\/events\/0012000001fxZm9AAE?integrationType=DEFAULT&amp;template=design%2Farticle%2Fplatypus_two_column.tpl\" alt=\"\" class=\"x1px y1px vh abs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With a sports scene like D-FW&#8217;s, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Cowboys<\/a> drama to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Rangers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Mavericks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stars<\/a> to a hotbed of college sports fandoms, there&#8217;s never a dull moment in Dallas sports radio. And some of the same voices have been doing it for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas has two full-time sports radio stations in 96.7 FM\/1310 The Ticket (KTCK-AM) and 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM). While they&#8217;re usually warring over ratings, both stations are loaded with talent and longevity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the five longest-tenured weekday sports radio hosts on the Dallas airwaves, some of them even having been on since the Cowboys were winning Super Bowls \u2014 yes, that long!<\/p>\n<p>5. Gavin Dawson \u2014 The Fan<\/p>\n<p>The General of the G-Bag Nation has been on the Dallas airwaves since 2010. He&#8217;s the lead host for The Fan&#8217;s afternoon drive show from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>4. Donovan Lewis \u2014 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&quot;The Ticket&quot; co-host Donovan Lewis (front) holds a segment of The Invasion with Matt McClearin on, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 at 1310 The Ticket - Dallas.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ticket&#8221; co-host Donovan Lewis (front) holds a segment of The Invasion with Matt McClearin on, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 at 1310 The Ticket &#8211; Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Shafkat Anowar\/Staff Photographer<\/p>\n<p>The Ticket&#8217;s &#8220;Donnie Doo&#8221; has been with the station since 2006 when he joined up with BaD Radio, and later served as midday partner to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/other-sports\/2023\/06\/21\/why-the-tickets-norm-hitzges-decided-it-was-time-to-move-on-from-legendary-radio-career\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas sports radio legend Norm\u00a0Hitzges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>From the Hitzges &#8220;coaching tree,&#8221; if you will, he&#8217;s taken over Ticket\u00a0middays and now hosts The Invasion with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/2024\/10\/03\/qa-with-the-tickets-matt-mcclearin-how-a-winding-radio-road-led-back-to-dallas-airwaves\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt McClearin<\/a> from 9 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>3. Bob Sturm \u2014 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p>Once the &#8216;B&#8217; in BaD Radio, Sturm came to Dallas from Wisconsin and brought his hardcore football knowledge with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After working with Dan McDowell for over a decade, Sturm took over as the co-host of The Hardline in 2020 after the retirement of another Dallas radio legend, Mike Rhyner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Corby Davidson \u2014 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Ticket's Corby Davidson talks during his show at The Ticket\u2019s studio in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Davidson announced he has a rare, benign brain tumor called an acoustic neuroma.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ticket&#8217;s Corby Davidson talks during his show at The Ticket\u2019s studio in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Davidson announced he has a rare, benign brain tumor called an acoustic neuroma.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edas Valverde II\/Staff Photographer<\/p>\n<p>Davidson was originally one of The Ticket&#8217;s first interns. Now &#8220;The Snake&#8221; has been a member of its afternoon drive show for 20 years, teaming up with Sturm in 2020 to begin a new era of The Hardline after Rhyner, Davidson&#8217;s longtime co-host, left the station.<\/p>\n<p>1. The Musers \u2014 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Gordon Keith and George Dunham of The Musers reminisce about the previous 20 years of Ticket history at Ticketstock at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, TX on January 25, 2014.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Keith and George Dunham of The Musers reminisce about the previous 20 years of Ticket history at Ticketstock at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, TX on January 25, 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Olivia\/The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n<p>The three-way tie for first place goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/lifestyle\/article\/the-ticket-george-dunham-the-bartonville-store-22192087.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Dunham<\/a>, Craig Miller and Gordon Keith, a.k.a &#8220;The Musers&#8221; of The Ticket&#8217;s morning drive. Not only are they the longest-tenured sports show in Dallas, they&#8217;re the longest-running morning show, period. They&#8217;ve also been the top-rated show in the market since 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2023, The Musers make it hard to argue who the kings of Dallas sports radio are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ticket Sportradio hosts (from left) Donovan Lewis, Corby Davidson and Craig Miller speak on air during Ticketstock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,23171,136,346889],"class_list":["post-714339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-listicle","tag-music","tag-sports-other-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}