Dallas radio blows up

"President Kennedy has been shot!"

Big radio news all around:

1. Of course, there's the explanation of The Hammer's absence.

2. After leaving ESPN over the summer, Dan Patrick has a new deal with Cumulus, the owner of Dallas/Fort Worth's only local sports talk station, The Ticket. He'll be on daily from 9 p.m.-midnight.

3. Two options here: if you very little time to read, check out the greatest lead to a news story written in the Dallas market in 15 years; or if you have a lot of time, read the entire saga of the latest ill-fated attempt to start a second Dallas sports talk radio station and laugh your ass off.