Publish date: 2023-03-08
Travis Rodgers Biography
Travis Rodgers is a sports talk radio personality on Los Angeles ESPN affiliate KSPN (AM). Rodgers was the host of the Yahoo! Sports Radio 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 and the ESPN television show “Jim Rome is Burning”.
10 Quick Facts About Travis Rodgers
Travis Rodgers Age
Travis Rodgers is a sports talk radio personality on Los Angeles ESPN affiliate KSPN. He was born on 22nd November 1971. Thus Travis Rodgers is 47 years old as of 2018.
Travis Rodgers Family
He grew up in Arcadia, California. He graduated from Arcadia High School. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a BS in Political Science. He pitched for the UCSB baseball team for four seasons. Information about her father, Mother and siblings are under review. it will be updated soon.
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He is married to Ashlynn Brooke. Travis proposed to her in May 2013. They got married on 27 October at an outdoor wedding. The couple has two children, a daughter (born in 2010) and a son (born in 2014).
After bidding a proper farewell to adult entertainment, she has opened up a herbal business. She also ran a cooking channel on YouTube, named ‘Cooking Your Ash Off’, for a while.
Travis Rodgers Net Worth
Travis Rodgers has an estimated net worth of 1Million dollars as of 2019. 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.
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Travis has lived in the Philadelphia area since the early 1990s when he attended Villanova University (B.A., 1992). Travis moved to Hitachi, Japan for two years after graduating from Villanova in order to cultivate his foreign language skills and teach English to business professionals at a private language school. He returned to Philadelphia to continue his studies of Japan and the Japanese language at The University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Candidate).
He then pursued a Master’s of Science in Architectural Design at Drexel University (M.S., Architectural Design 2000) After working for several residential and commercial architecture and interior design firms, Travis pursued his career in real estate.
He has been working for Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors since 2003. Travis has been awarded The Five Star Real Estate Professional Award for the past five years (2013-2018) which is awarded to the top 1% of real estate agents in the greater Philadelphia area.
After leaving the show in 2009, he was hired in 2010 by KGOW 1560 AM, in Houston. At the starting 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 Sports Talk Host of 2011 by the Houston Press.
Travis Rodgers KGOW
In 2012, he moved his program to KLAA 830 and began The Travis Rodgers Morning Show, based in Anaheim, California, and soon after KGOW dropped his local Houston program.
He 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 9–10 am PT”. His’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 ESPN
Rodgers then co-hosted ESPN LA’s Afternoons with Marcellus and Travis. He also does event adjacent programming for the Los Angeles Lakers and Rams. On September 4.2018, he moved to mornings as co-host with Keyshawn Johnson and LZ Granderson, also on ESPN 710.
Travis Rodgers KLAA
He 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 9–10 am PT”. His’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 Now
He 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. He 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 his’ regular guests is his friend Brian Beckner; he joins The show for a weekly segment or two entitled “The Friday Facts.” he has stated on the air that his conversations with Beckner are a highlight of the show.
Rodgers Now is podcast at Yahoo! Sports Radio Podcasts, along with the other YSR shows. The national show can be streamed Yahoo! Sports Radio from Noon to 2 pm ET.
Beginning in 2012, he held his 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.
Travis Rodgers answers local sports radio’s wake-up call for ESPN 710
“There’s not a soul around — except maybe some guy is cleaning, buffing, scooping,” the new KSPN-AM (710) early morning weekday drive co-host admitted about the otherwise neon-lit, fan-flash favorite gathering area across the street from Staples Center.
“I did see someone early one morning in the Starbucks, and I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I can hit that on the way up the elevator.’ Nope. It’s not open until 5.”
When you beat the opening of a Starbucks to work — which is when Rodgers and partner Kelvin Washington must do to be in the ESPN Radio studios in the offices right next door — you’re officially on the zombie shift.
The intent behind raising the shade on an L.A.-based sports-talk station before dawn is simple: Find another entry point on a more intimate basis with whoever is out on the Southern California freeways heading to their jobs, or perhaps dragging themselves home from their previous endeavors. The success of this leap of rating fate may not be deemed success/failure for another 16 to 18 months, according to station program director Mike Thompson. That’s the nature of this beast.
KFWB-AM (980), recently rebranded as “The Beast” all-sports format, has already been asking Jeanne Zelasko, Marques Johnson and Sam Farber to time-slip their lives and start a show that starts at 5:30 a.m., jump-starting Jim Rome’s 9 a.m. arrival. Early ratings for the show, as well as the station, aren’t much of a ripple.
And it has been tried before. In the late 1990s, Brian Golden used to do a live 4-to-6 a.m. “Early Morning Sports Page” show for KAVL-AM (610), based in Palmdale and a Fox Radio Dodgers’ affiliate, trying to synch up with the thousands of commuters who made the daily trip between Kern County and the Newhall Pass.
But other than that, this KSPN innovation/experiment requires Rodgers and Washington to take one for the team. Whatever financial compensation is involved can be parlayed into a stock purchase of a local caffeine-driven company.
As Rodgers emerges at 11 a.m. from the ESPN Radio studios just before the lunch crowd hits LA Live — that adds up to six straight hours of sports yammering, including his syndicated Yahoo! Sports Radio shift from — it’s a bit of an eye-opener as he heads home to Orange County to see his wife and three kids.
“Maybe I’m not a morning person — I know when I was 20, I wasn’t,” the 43-year-old admitted. “You just get up and do it.
“This is something I’m ridiculously excited about. ESPN is obviously a huge opportunity, a station that rates well in the market, they’re committed to succeeding, grew up 20 minutes from here, I get talking about the teams obsessed with when I was a kid,”
For KSPN, the other purpose of having Rodgers-Washington start the on-air conversation from 5 to 7 a.m. on something called “ESPNLA Morning Show,” with the suggestion it become “Rise and Grind” leading into Colin Cowherd’s national show, is that it keeps things going when it moves to a 7-to-9 a.m. live stream on the company website and the ESPN app. That technically-advanced in the male 18-34 and 25-54 age targeted demographics have another choice.
“Radio has become more like TV has been for years, where we have shows on multiple platforms that many times compete with each other,” said Thompson, who has been arriving himself at about 4:30 a.m. each day lately to help the launch that began last Monday.
KSPN, owned and operated by ESPN, had carried the solid national show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg for years on the 710 signal until it was decided it could be shifted to the other ESPN affiliate in Southern California, Angels-owned KLAA-AM (830) when Thompson wanted to give local voices a try.
Rodgers had been that local KLAA voice for the last couple of years, based in studios at Angel Stadium, and solicited Thompson to include him in the new KSPN plans, making this look like a straight-up show swap.
To create this, however, Thompson decided to let go of highly-regarded sports news anchors/reporters Beto Duran, Pete Fox, and Dave Joseph. The time taken for the top-of-the-hour update segments has been morphed into the existing KSPN sports-talk shows, thus smoothing over any sort of abrupt breaks — or opportunities for listeners to leave. Thompson points out other stations in this 80-station market have gone to a similar philosophy.
So enter Rodgers, whose sense of humor and even his facial features may remind you of comedian Seth MacFarlane. Rodgers’ backward career curve to this place of local recognition comes not long after 15 years of a wildly successful run as the driving producer for Rome’s burgeoning sports-talk empire, which leads to a syndication drive with the Premiere Radio Network.
Rodgers broke off from Rome’s run in 2009, mostly because he wanted to see if he could do this talking thing on his own. It was a difficult breakup, but like any marriage, “if it’s not going to end badly, then it’s not going to end,” Rodgers said.
After a stop in Houston, and then engaging with The Sporting News Radio Network that has since before Yahoo Sports Radio, Rodgers understands his solo career may need more than just a six-year span to fully separate from the perceived Rome influence.
“I still get questions all the time about Jim,” said the Arcadia native and UC Santa Barbara grad, “and I guess I have to steal a line that he has used when people still ask him if he’s the ‘Jim Everett guy’ (a reference to a confrontation Rome had with the former Rams quarterback while on an ESPN TV show in 1994).
“Jim would always say: Yeah, but there was a lot more to it than what you think happened. I’m really proud of what we did together. Now, I’m just trying this. I’m a work in progress.
“The thing that really gets me is when people say I’m trying to do a Rome impression. I mean, we worked intimately together for 15 years, and some of him rubbed off on me, and me on him. But stylistically we’re pretty different.”
The transition from producer to on-air talent was hardly as smooth as anticipated for Rodgers, who out of college aspired to be a local TV sportscaster.
“There’s a reason why those jobs are separate,” he said. “My role with Jim wasn’t a traditional producer, just booking guests or screening calls, I was more into content creation and shaping conversations, much more collaborative. That was my value to him.
“I saw when Jim used to get frustrated about things but I never understood why from the producer side. But now that I’m here, it makes perfect sense. When it’s your responsibility and your voice out there, and you make a mistake, it’s on you. That took me a while to figure out.
“It’s one of those things now that feels like going from an assistant coach to a head coach. Sure, I know how to draw up plays. But where I already held Jim in high regard for how he did his show, that respect goes to a whole new level for me now.”
Rodgers still spends his 9-to-11 a.m. window weekdays continuing to do his Yahoo Sports Radio show called “Travis Rodgers Now,” available on the Yahoo Sports app and YahooSportsRadio.com in L.A.
But even with the new wake-up call, Rodgers doesn’t turn in until shortly after 10 p.m. so he can follow L.A.-based games to their conclusion. So now, afternoon naps are scheduled.
“When I did the show at KLAA (from 6 to 9 a.m.), it was just a 25-minute commute from my home in Laguna Niguel,” said Rodgers. “I could get up at 4:15 — again, no one should be up at that time — and have no problem.
“This is a little more of a drive, and I’m up at 3. But the difference between 3 and 4 is negligible — they’re both awful. But I’m happy to do it.
“I know the people on the road when we are on the air care about sports the same way someone who drives to work at 8 in the morning. I’ve always kind of wondered why there aren’t more local morning shows done like this.”
Let the other sports-talk station program directors sleep on that one.
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