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That's a question The Street is asking following a report from internet news organization Recode that Pandora's founder and CEO, Tim Westergren, is planning to step aside now that Sirius XM is a $480 million investor in the struggling streaming audio entity.

VariZoom will now sell the Cineo Matchbox lighting solution, a portable remote phosphor on-camera light used for motion picture and television production, and its accessories throughout the U.S.

On behalf of everyone at Streamline Publishing and the Radio + Television Business Report, we thank you for your readership and your support of the new RBR.com. We are now closed for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Your next scheduled Afternoon Headlines e-mail returns on Tuesday, June 30.

The television market of WSBS-22 in Key West, Fla., the station used by Spanish Broadcasting System as the flagship for its Mega TV mini-network, will now include 41 cable communities in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale DMA, thanks to an FCC Media Bureau Order released today.

Android TV users have a new way to get the latest weather forecast. That's because AccuWeather has officially launched a new app for the OTT device.

The role of Digital Program Director has grown in importance for many broadcast radio companies, including iHeartMedia. The nation's top owner of AMs and FMs by station count just appointed another individual to its growing roster of employees bearing this title, as Rob Whiteside will now serve in the role for its Virginia/Carolina Region, effective immediately.

How can AI "supercharge" a radio station advertisers' return on investment? That question, among others, was answered by two top executives at Veritone today during the first in a series of exclusive webinars hosted by Streamline Publishing's Radio INK and RBR+TVBR.

Jeff Kimmel has shifted from an Israeli company's executive sales team to head up North American sales efforts for a Dutch entity providing integrated business and revenue management solutions for media companies.

Fresh from the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, a French satellite operator that's the first to deliver a differentiated and scalable GEO-MEO offering worldwide has teamed with a TV manufacturer in the driver's seat on the ATSC 3.0 next-gen broadcast standard to demonstrate OLED TV’s cutting-edge 4K High Frame Rate (HFR) broadcast here through Wednesday at the 10th SES Industry Days conference.

Triveni Digital has partnered with Verance Corporation to integrate Verance Aspect, a key component of the ATSC 3.0 television standard that broadcasters are able to use in today's ATSC 1.0 environment, into Triveni's StreamScope MT-50 video, audio, and metadata monitoring and analysis system.

New low and medium AXIOM Master FM Antennas have been brought to market by Electronics Research Inc. (ERI). The news came as ERI also introduced new medium and high power FM hybrid couplers at the 2017 NAB Show.

Imagine Communications, a company dedicated to "empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation," is working with MSG Networks to revitalize the company’s New York City playout production facilities.

When it came time for a German designer and manufacturer of broadcast mixing consoles and production equipment to produce a product demo for the North American marketplace, it didn't turn to a translator or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in Weisbaden. Instead, it called up "The Confluence," and help came from a station serving the city where the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers converge.