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Limbaugh himself resisted naming a successor, leaving the field wide open for each ownership/syndication group to try its own offering. That means a patchwork of affiliates around the region (and around the country) for each of the new players. On iHeart’s own stations and its Premiere Radio Networks, the former Rush slot relaunches today with a new “inspired by Rush” show hosted by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. That list of markets includes New York (WOR), Boston (WXKS AM), Albany (WGY), Syracuse (WSYR), Rochester (WHAM), Providence (WHJJ), and Harrisburg (WHP), but it’s missing some other big ones, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Hartford and Buffalo.

Those last three markets all had Audacy-owned stations carrying Limbaugh, and we now have the answer to a big question about one of them. In CONNECTICUT, until late last week, Audacy’s WTIC (1080 Hartford) had yet to say who would get the noon slot to replace the Rush best-ofs that had been running there. Like WBEN in Buffalo, WTIC is going local in middays. It’s hired Tom Shattuck to do a new 10 AM to 2 PM shift, which will slot in between an extra hour of Brian Shactman’s morning show and an extra hour of Todd Feinburg’s afternoon show. Shattuck comes on board in Hartford after a long Boston media career that’s included programming the online Boston Herald Radio, producing at WRKO and the old WTKK-FM, and most recently as senior editor of the Lowell Sun.

(And what about the biggest ex-Rush market that’s still without a named replacement? That’s Philadelphia, where the schedule of Audacy’s WPHT 1210 still lists Rush as the noon host – but it’s looking as though there will be a local replacement there, too, soon.)

*We have some answers about a few other markets, too: