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People & Personalities: Bucks Name Katie George New Sideline Reporter

The Bucks have hired Katie George as a new sideline reporter for broadcasts on FS Wisconsin. George also will contribute to Bucks.com and other team social channels. She comes to the Bucks after spending more than two years at WDRB-Fox in Louisville (Bucks). In Milwaukee, Radcliffe & Velazquez noted George "replaces Telly Hughes, who covered the Bucks for eight seasons and spent the past two years within the organization but was let go" this offseason. Meanwhile, a source said that Gus Johnson, who "called a limited number of games for the Bucks each season" starting in '15, will "no longer be a member of the broadcast team." Jon McGlocklin, one of the "original Bucks players who has spent over four decades calling games, remains with the team in a different role" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/18).

BETTING MAN: FORBES' Matt Rybaltowski reports CBS Sports Radio's Scott Ferrall on Aug. 28 is "launching a sports betting podcast, 'Ferrall On The Bets,' in time for the start of the football season." Ferrall each week from Tuesday-Sunday mornings will "air six podcasts on the Westwood One Podcast Network ... offering listeners his picks on the day's action." Ferrall "spent weeks in collaboration with executives from Westwood One on a format that would resonate with all types of gamblers, ranging from sharp bettors to the proverbial Weekend Joe." The new podcast will not affect Ferrall's nightly show on CBS Sports Radio, "Ferrall On The Bench" (FORBES.com, 8/20).

DYING BREED: In N.Y., Bob Raissman wrote if SNY's Keith Hernandez had "apologized for his brutally honest take" on Marlins P Jose Ureña drilling Braves LF Ronald Acuña Jr. last Wednesday, it "would have been time to question his credibility." It would have also been time to "lament the loss of one of the few honest, unfiltered voices left in a baseball broadcast booth." Obtaining universal consensus is "not necessary," it is "actually a detriment." If a voice "knows a comment or insight will tick someone off, well, tough" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 8/19).

ROAD LESS TRAVELED: In Tampa, Meagan Bens noted Single-A Florida State League Clearwater Threshers play-by-play voice Kirsten Karbach is "one of the three women broadcasting for a minor-league affiliate this season." The 27-year-old "dreams of a career in baseball." Only four women have "followed that path to a big-league booth." Karbach said that she has "not heard any negative comments about her gender." Instead, the feedback she receives "relates to the listener's unfamiliarity with hearing a female's voice" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8/18).

NOTES: Mike Lupica, the "most well-known byline" in the N.Y. Daily News sports department, "is out" at the newspaper. Esther Newberg, who reps Lupica at ICM, "confirmed the longtime columnist has left the paper" (NYPOST.com, 8/17)....Pro Football HOFer John Madden on Friday said that he was "retiring from his free-form, inevitably delightful twice-a-week call-ins" to S.F.-based KCBS-AM's morning show (San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 8/18).

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