WPGB-FM (104.7) sports talk host Rocco DeMaro was hit in the head by a softball while playing in a pickup game July 1 and suffered a fractured skull. He is off the air while he recovers.

"At this point we don't have a timetable" for when he will return to the show, WPGB program director Jay Bohannon said of DeMaro, who has been host of a weekly Saturday talk show and the station's Pirates post-game coverage.

	On July 14, 1967, black residents jeer at National Guardsmen called in following a second night of disorder in Newark, N.J. The scene is part of tonight's "P.O.V." episode, "'67 Revolution," on PBS. Click photo for larger image.

WTZN-FM (93.7) sports talk host Dave Dameshek told listeners during Friday's show that it would be his last.

Dameshek joined the talk station when it launched in April and had been doing the show from Los Angeles, where he was living.

CBS Radio Pittsburgh vice president of programming Keith Clark said that Dameshek told the station he was leaving for family and personal reasons.

WTZN will fill in the 7 to 10 p.m. slot with programming from Sporting News Network until a permanent replacement is hired.

WDUQ-FM (90.5) jazz host Tony Mowod is bringing back "Jazz Conversations," a weekly interview series featuring musicians and others involved in the jazz community.

The series will air Tuesdays at 8 p.m. during the nightly "Jazz With Tony Mowod" program.

Tonight's guest is 20-year-old jazz pianist Eldar.

(Adrian McCoy, Post-Gazette radio writer)

On the tube

Shows to look out for this week include two documentaries and the return of "Psych."

A six-day spasm of violence that hit Newark, N.J., in 1967 is the prism used to examine the black urban rebellions of the decade in "Revolution '67," a 90-minute documentary airing at 10 tonight on PBS's "P.O.V." series. Activist Tom Hayden, former Mayor James Sharpe, National Guardsmen and residents of the city weigh in as filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno examines the mayhem in a political and social context. "Revolution '67" illuminates a period that it contends provided lessons that have been largely ignored. The film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service and "P.O.V.," which showcases projects with a strong point of view.

Fifty years after the Dodgers left their New York home, the team's storied history is recounted in "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," debuting 8 p.m. tomorrow. The film, from HBO Sports and Major League Baseball Productions, looks at the definitive decade from 1947-57, when the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson integrated baseball and the team endured a string of World Series losses against the rival New York Yankees. Vindication came with a series victory in 1955, but just two years later the Dodgers headed west to Los Angeles. Fans always had a love-hate relationship with the team, says comedian and Brooklyn native Pat Cooper: "We never had that kind of 'Wow, Joltin' Joe DiMaggio.' We had the Brooklyn Bums."

USA Network's "Psych" returns for its second season with James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a Southern California police consultant whose offbeat approach raises suspicions that he's psychic. Clever Shawn doesn't try too hard to set the record straight. Dule Hill co-stars as his friend and reluctant sidekick, Gus, and Corbin Bernsen plays his stern father, a retired officer. In the opening episode, airing 10 p.m. Friday, an acid-tongued judge on an "American Idol"-style talent show is panicked by a series of attempts on his life and hires Shawn to find out who might wish him ill. Episode bonus: Tim Curry plays the witty endangered Brit.

(Lynn Elber, Associated Press)

Fans fight for 'Donnellys'

First everyone was nuts. Now they're crackers.

A small number of die-hard fans of NBC's recently canceled drama "The Black Donnellys" plan to ship nearly 300 pounds of Zesta crackers (that's about 45,000 crackers) to HBO executives beginning next week in hopes of persuading the premium cable outlet to pick up the moribund show.

Fans of "The Black Donnellys," a serialized drama about four Irish brothers and their involvement in organized crime in New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, were inspired by the recent success of "Jericho" fans and vow to keep sending crackers to HBO as long as donations hold out. In June, "Jericho" fans inundated CBS with tons of nuts, eventually persuading the network to exhume the post-apocalypse drama after it was dropped from its fall schedule.

"Donnellys" fans, whose Web site can be found at savetheblackdonnellys.net, said they chose HBO because the cable outlet is a better fit for the "Donnellys'" grittier themes. Also, they selected Zesta crackers because they are featured in a lounge sign belonging to one of the show's main characters.

HBO officials were unavailable for comment.

(Martin Mille, Los Angeles Times)

'Traveler' done, 'Nine' back

TVGuide.com reports that the cast of ABC's "Traveler" has been released from their contracts, which means the show will not return after its first season finishes up this month. But ABC will bring back canceled series "The Nine" for a run of episodes, presumably the six unaired ones, starting Aug. 1 at 10 p.m.

(Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV editor)