Jacor: Houghton: National Sports Sales Mgr.








Contact:        Pam Taylor
                606.655.6523

                Tom Connolly
                404.367.0640
                
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JACOR NAMES BOB HOUGHTON, MANAGER OF NATIONAL SPORTS SALES


COVINGTON, KY., October 30, 1997: Jacor Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: JCOR)
today promoted Bob Houghton to the newly formed position of Manager of National
Sports Sales.  Houghton, who has been General Manager of Atlanta's WGST AM & FM
since May of 1992, will work closely with the national sales reps at Eastman
Radio and Katz Radio as well as Katz Radio Group (KGR) Sports.

Under Houghton's leadership WGST was the flagship of the Atlanta Braves and the
Atlanta Hawks.  Bob has also been responsible for sports sales of the Minnesota
Twins, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Blackhawks, as well as
several college football and basketball programs.  He came to Jacor with five
years of experience selling sports in the national arena for CBS Radio.

In announcing the new assignment Jacor President & Chief Operating Officer
Bobby Lawrence said, "Howdy brings unlimited enthusiasm and creativity to our
national sports selling process. His experience in all aspects of sports
selling makes him a natural choice for this new position."

Jacor currently owns the play-by-play rights to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa
Bay Devil Rays, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Denver Broncos and the San
Diego Chargers.  They also have associations with several major college
football and basketball programs and other professional hockey, basketball and
baseball teams.  Bob will continue to work out of Atlanta.

Jacor is the nation's third largest radio group measured in terms of total
revenues.  Prior to the recently announced Nationwide Communications
acquisition and including announced pending acquisitions, Jacor owns,
operates, or represents 172 radio stations in 36 U.S. broadcast areas, and
WKRC-TV in Cincinnati.  Additionally, Jacor is the country's third largest
provider of syndicated radio programming through Radio-Active Media (formerly
EFM), the syndicator for top radio personalities Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Dean
Edell, and Premiere Radio Networks, the Los Angeles based syndicator of The Dr.
Laura Schlessinger Show and creator of comedy clips, jingles and other
programming and research products.  Jacor also owns a satellite distribution
service, NSN, which provides bi-directional communication among multiple
networks.  Jacor plans to pursue growth through continued acquisitions of
complementary radio stations in its existing broadcast locations, and radio
groups or individual stations with significant presence in other attractive
locations.  Additionally, Jacor has plans to grow in other broadcast-related
products and businesses.

Visit "www.cfonews.com/jcor/ for more information on Jacor.

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