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The Ticket's Norm Hitzges announces he is retiring from radio

Fans of the longtime sports talk host will have one more week to listen to Hitzges Sportsradio 96.7 FM/1310 AM

DALLAS, TEXAS – MARCH 30:  Radio host Norm Hitzges of The Ticket during the Texas Motor Speedway Media Day at Gilley’s Dallas on March 30, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
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The end of an era in D-FW sports radio is coming.

Norm Hitzges, a longtime host at Sportsradio 96.7 FM/1310 AM The Ticket [KTCK-AM], announced just after 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning during the โ€œNorm and D Invasionโ€ with Donovan Lewis that he is retiring on Friday, June 23.

โ€œI donโ€™t know how to say goodbye to you,โ€ Hitzges told listeners over the airwaves. โ€œIโ€™ve thought about this for weeks now, and I donโ€™t know how to say goodbye to you. Today, I am announcing my retirement. ... I want to assure you this is not health-related. So many of you have helped carry me through the last three years or so in which there were some serious health minutes, but itโ€™s not health-related.โ€

Hitzges, 78, announced in 2020 that he had begun treatment for bladder cancer.

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