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Clay Travis to Continue to Co-Host the Nationally Syndicated “The Clay & Buck Show”
 

iHeartPodcasts and Clay Travis Launch Sport & State Podcast Network 
 

LOS ANGELES, September 2, 2026 – iHeartMedia, the No. 1 audio company in America, and Premiere Networks announced today a renewed and expanded agreement with leading multimedia personality Clay Travis — co-host of “The Clay & Buck Show,” the No. 1 talk radio program in the format’s 12–3 p.m. ET timeslot; founder of the wildly popular sports, pop-culture, and politics-based media company OutKick Media; and best-selling author.
 

As part of the long-term agreement, Travis will continue co-hosting the Premiere Networks nationally syndicated “The Clay & Buck Show.” Each day on the program, Travis and co-host Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. Heard by millions of listeners on more than 550 stations nationwide, the program has become a must-stop destination for the biggest names in news and politics. 
 

SportandState.com, Travis' new sports media company, launched on August 19, 2026, with live digital shows from 8 a.m.to 6 p.m. ET. The shows feature a wide variety of talent, streaming live on the site daily, as well as smart, original, funny, and authentic articles. iHeart will partner with Sport & State on a podcast network and with advertising sales across digital and web content.
 

In addition, The Clay & Buck Show, which celebrated its five-year anniversary in June, will continue to be distributed as part of The Clay & Buck Podcast Network. Launched in March 2023 and distributed by iHeartPodcasts, the network features a robust lineup of news, politics and culture podcasts, including “The Buck Sexton Show,” “The David Rutherford Show,” “The Tudor Dixon Podcast,” “The Truth with Lisa Boothe,” “The Karol Markowicz Show,” “It’s a Numbers Game with Ryan Girdusky,” “Normally with Karol Markowicz,” “The Mary Katharine Ham Show,” and “Nation States with Yates.”

“Clay Travis is one of the most dynamic and influential voices in Talk radio, and we’re thrilled to continue our long-term partnership with him,” said Julie Talbott, President of Premiere Networks. “His ability to engage audiences, spark meaningful conversations, and deliver results for our station partners and advertisers has been extraordinary, and we look forward to continued growth and success together.”
 

“Clay Travis has built one of the most influential brands in news, talk and sports across every platform, and we’re excited to continue and expand our partnership with him,” said Rich Bressler, President and Chief Operating Officer for iHeartMedia. “From the continued success of ‘The Clay & Buck Show’ to the growth of his podcast network and the launch of the Sport & State Podcast Network, this partnership reflects our shared commitment to delivering compelling content at scale and reaching audiences wherever they are.”
 

About Clay Travis
As the founder of OutKick—the fastest-growing national multimedia platform now owned by Fox Corporation—Travis has become one of the most prominent and outspoken voices in media. A regular contributor on FOX News Media and a featured analyst on Big Noon Kickoff for FOX Sports during college football season, Travis also hosts Outkick The Show, a no-holds-barred, daily, multi-platform program where Travis delivers his unfiltered takes on the most talked-about headlines in sports, culture, and politics. In July of 2023, Outkick The Show was added to FOX’s streaming app, FOX Nation. A graduate of George Washington University and Vanderbilt Law School, Travis is also the bestselling author of Dixieland Delight, On Rocky Top, Republicans Buy Sneakers Too and American Playbook. He and his family are based in Nashville. Fans can follow him on X, Instagram and Facebook. 
 

About Premiere Networks
Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, syndicates more than 100 radio programs and services to more than 8,600 radio affiliations and reaches a quarter billion listeners monthly. Premiere offers the best in talk, entertainment and sports programming featuring the following personalities: Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Delilah, Steve Harvey, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, The Breakfast Club, George Noory, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, Angela Yee, Granger Smith, Sean Hannity, Elvis Duran, Mario Lopez, Bobby Bones, Johnjay and Rich, Big Boy, Brooke & Jeffrey, Stugotz, Enrique Santos and others. For more information, please visit www.PremiereNetworks.com.
 

About iHeartMedia, Inc.
iHeartMedia, Inc. [Nasdaq: IHRT] is the leading audio media company in America, with nine out of ten Americans listening to iHeart broadcast radio in every month. iHeart's broadcast radio assets alone have a larger audience in the U.S. than any other media outlet and over four times the ad-enabled audience of the largest digital only audio service. iHeart is the largest podcast publisher according to both Podtrac and Triton, with more downloads than the next two podcast publishers combined, has the most recognizable live events across all genres of music, has the number one social footprint among audio players, has the highest-reach and most engaged influencers, and is the only fully integrated audio ad tech solution across broadcast, streaming and podcasts. The company continues to leverage its strong audience connection and unparalleled consumer reach to build new platforms, products and services. Visit iHeartMedia.com for more company information.

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Media Contacts:
 

For Premiere Networks/iHeartMedia
Rachel Nelson
rnelson@PremiereNetworks.com
 

For Clay Travis
Mitchell P. Jackson
mitchell@bcccommunications.com