‘Ticket’ Denied TRO Against Ex-hosts’ Sports Podcast

A federal judge in Dallas on Friday denied a request by the owners of KTCK “The Ticket” for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented former hosts Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp from producing a sports-talk podcast, pending a December trial on a civil suit accusing the duo of “flagrant breaches of contract and misappropriation of … intellectual property rights.”

The suit, filed by Susquehanna Radio, which owns The Ticket, contends that the podcast, The Dumb Zone, is a carbon copy of The Hang Zone, the afternoon Ticket show McDowell and Kemp hosted until they quit in July in a contract dispute. Both hosts signed six-month noncompete agreements while employed at the Ticket.