WQAM Adds The Big O & Drops Kevin Rogers

     Sports Radio 560 WQAM-AM will make some changes during the month of August. Orlando Alzugaray, a.k.a. The Big O, will return to WQAM while evening host Kevin Rogers will no longer be at the station. Alzugaray will become the midday host at WQAM on August 25 and replace Alex Donno and Brandon Guzio. Donno will shift to the evening host spot, replace Rogers and become the new Florida Panthers studio host.
     Alzugaray has been the afternoon host at 640 Sports WMEN-AM since October 2010. He began to work at WQAM back in 1995 as a reporter and weekend host. He was promoted to the midday host spot and the Miami Dolphins pregame studio host at that station. He was moved to the late morning shift when they hired Michael Irvin in July 2010. Alzugaray was demoted to evening host in August 2010 when Gino Torretta joined WQAM. That just lasted only two weeks and Alzugaray decided to leave.
     He first got noticed on News Radio 610 WIOD-AM and 940 WINZ-AM as a sports reporter in 1993 and stayed there for almost two years. He moved on to San Francisco where he hosted a sports show on the first national Spanish language sports talk station in the United States. The organization went out of business after less than one year and he returned home to Miami to work for WQAM.
     Rogers, who was let go by WQAM from evening host and Florida Panthers studio host duties, will continue to work for VegasInsider.com as a writer and handicapper. He has hosted on the Florida Panthers Radio Network since the Panthers moved back to WQAM in September 2010. Rogers, a Florida State University grad, had been with the station since 2008.
     He started as a sports host in Kansas City at KCSP-AM before heading to Miami. Rogers joined 790 The Ticket WAXY-AM in the mid-2000s. He worked as a late night host. evening host, late morning host and Florida Panthers studio host during his reign there.
     Donno, a 2007 University of Miami grad, began his broadcasting career at 790 The Ticket as a producer and reporter. He was elevated to afternoon sports anchor spot on the Dan Le Batard Show and hosted a mixed martial arts show named Fighter's Fury on Sunday mornings. He would leave the station in late July 2012 and join WQAM.
     He began as a midday sports anchor and weekend sports host for the show Fight Night. Donno added duties as a midday show sidekick with John Renshaw in April 2013. He was paired with Brandon Guzio as a midday co-host in early January 2014.
     Donno will become the ninth Florida Panthers Radio Network studio host in franchise history. The previous people to hold that post includes John Moynihan, Jon "Boog" Sciambi, Ron Flatter, Steve Goldstein, Jesse Agler, Kevin Rogers(twice), Jeremy Marks-Peltz and Guzio.