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• Marv Albert will remain with Westwood One radio to call Monday Night Football alongside Boomer Esiason, but the network has made some changes, most notably replacing Tommy Tighe as studio host with former Phillies announcer Scott Graham. In addition to Tighe, gone from a year ago are the late, great Harry Kalas, analysts Jim Fassel and Dennis Green and play by play man Bill Rosinski, now with ESPN. (Courtesy Houston Chronicle)

• Sean Pendergast has signed a new two-year agreement with KGOW (1560 AM), according to station GM Richard Topper. Topper also said Sporting News Radio host Tim Brando’s show will debut on the station Aug. 17 and that Brando will broadcast from Houston on Aug. 20-21. (Courtesy Houston Chronicle)

• Just as Notre Dame football has a home on NBC, Army has agreed to air its home games and neutral site games in which it is the home team on CBS College Sports from 2010 through 2014. The network also will air Army’s home games save one this fall and has a similar agreement with Navy football. (Courtesy Houston Chronicle)

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• Erin Andrews is not expected back on the air until early September. An ESPN spokesperson says it has nothing to do with the recent controversy over a nude video of her surfacing on the Internet, The spokesman said Andrews already was scheduled to be off from mid-July until early September. (Courtesy St. Louis Post Dispatch)

• The NFL draft will move to Thursday primetime next year on April 22, with the first round starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. Then, it will begin again on Friday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. ET with the second and third rounds. The remainder of the draft will occur starting Saturday, April 24 at 10:00 a.m. It will continue to be carried on ESPN as well as the NFL Network. (Courtesy USA Today)

• ESPN 710 in Los Angeles has added Mychal Thompson and Andrew Siciliano weekdays from 11 am to 3 pm. Thompson comes over from cross-town 570 KLAC. Siciliano most recently worked at Fox Sports Radio Network.

• 790 The Ticket morning host Jorge Sedano will be the color analyst on FIU football games on the station. Jeremy Marks-Peltz returns on play-by-play. (Courtesy Miami Herald)

• Adam Kuperstein, NBC 6's No. 2 sportscaster, is no longer anchoring sports on weekends and instead is reporting sports and human-interest stories. Weekend newscaster Amara Sohn is narrating weekend sportscasts. ``I'm enjoying what I'm doing,'' he said. ``The only thing disappointing is Sports Final [on Sundays] is not on the air.'' (Courtesy Miami Herald)

• Alonzo Mourning said he has spoken to the NBA about joining NBA TV, provided it doesn't conflict with his new gig as the Heat's vice president/player development. ``I would be interested,'' he said. ``The only thing I've ruled out is coaching.'' (Courtesy Miami Herald)

• Ben Maller will sit in for Tony Bruno next week on the "Into the Night" show that airs from 7-10 p.m. weekdays on KLAC (570). It can also be heard on XM 14, Sirius 122. (Courtesy North County Times)

• The latest radio ratings are out and, despite a dismal season by the Padres, XX Sports 1090 held at 1.6, No. 23 in the market. XTRA Sports 1360 could finally be making a dent in the market after a year on the air. The station checked in with a 0.6 rating. That's not great, but it's a significant improvement from 0.0. ESPN 800, which has been stripped down to a local staff of one, checked in at 0.4, up from 0.0 in past ratings books. (Courtesy North County Times)

• Greg Dickerson will step in as the permanent host on Comcast SportsNet’s “The Baseball Show,’’ which is simulcast on WEEI. The spot opened up when Michael Felger, who still hosts a pair of programs on CSN, cut ties with WEEI to join “The Sports Hub.’’ (Courtesy Boston Globe)

• Sources say brash broadcaster Mike North has signed a new lead sponsor for his still newish "Monsters in the Morning" sports talk show on Comcast SportsNet Chicago: the Burr Ridge-based Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust -- commonly referred to by the acronym LECET. It replaces NextStep Medical Staffing, which was founded by David Hernandez, who is now under arrest. (Courtesy Chicago Sun Times)

• Victoria Lim, a former consumer reporter at WFLA-Ch. 8, will join the Bright House Sports Network (once known as the Catch 47 sports channel) on Aug. 17, serving as an investigative reporter and occasional anchor for the expanding channel. (Courtesy St. Petersburg Times)

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• Former SportsCenter anchor Rich Eisen, dropped by ESPN in 2003, will next month be back on the channel. But Eisen, now an NFL Network anchor, will just be making a single appearance — albeit one that will last several hours. He'll replace Chris Berman as the host of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's induction ceremony on Aug. 9, which will air both on ESPN and NFLN. Longtime ceremony host Berman will have a new role as a presenter for inductee Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills. (Courtesy USA Today)

• Largely overlooked during coverage of Walter Cronkite's death was the fact the legendary newsman hosted the first televised Olympics. Cronkite kept CBS viewers apprised to competition on the slopes and at the ice rinks during the 1960 Winter Games from Squaw Valley. The 15 hours, aired over 11 days, were broadcast mostly in the daytime. Cronkite's legendary career also included a few other sports broadcasting assignments in the 1930s, including the re-creation of college football games for KCMO-AM in Kansas City, Mo. (Courtesy Denver Post)

• Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games will remain on KCKK 1510 AM for at least two more seasons under a new agreement between Mile High Sports Radio and Kroenke Sports Enterprises. (Courtesy Denver Post)

• Several readers continue to ask who will team with Dave Logan this season in the Broncos' booth on KOA 850 AM. Station management said several weeks ago that because of the economy, freelancer David Diaz-Infante would not be back and that the position would be filled internally. An announcement hasn't been made.The deal silences, for now, rumors Kroenke would buy an AM outlet, which would air the games. Still, there's always a possibility in the quick-changing Denver radio scene Kroenke could purchase 1510 AM. (Courtesy Denver Post)

• Perhaps Versus should change its name to Strong. The sports cable channel's audience ratings for the first 10 stops on the Tour de France were up 77 percent over last year when Lance Armstrong didn't compete. (Courtesy Denver Post)

• Boston, St. Louis and Milwaukee are the nation's best major-league baseball towns if gauged by audience ratings of locally produced cable games during the first half of this season. The Rockies, aired on FSN Rocky Mountain, were a respectable 14th among the 30 franchises. (Courtesy Denver Post)

• The end of classical music on WUFT-FM is just the beginning of changes in store for the University of Florida's broadcast stations. The university's AM station is increasing sports programming, starting with longtime sports broadcaster Larry Vettel's new talk show. (Courtesy Gainesville Sun)

• Chicago White Sox TV color commentator Steve Stone has signed an agreement to provide baseball commentary twice a week on CBS Radio's all-sports WSCR-AM (670). (Courtesy Chicago Sun Times)

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