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SiriusXM has started rolling out a new version of its SXM App for iOS and Android with a refreshed design, new personalization features, and other enhancements. The revamped version of the SXM App has started to appear on app stores,

There's much on Curtis LeGeyt's plate with respect to the NAB's key legislative agenda on Capitol Hill. Two key matters in front of Congressional lawmakers were the focus of a conversation between the association's President/CEO, and Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb.

A newly signed content distribution deal is poised to make Las Vegas-based VSiN, The Sports Betting Network, the largest audio offering of its kind in the U.S. VSiN's content will air on upward of 300 radio stations across the U.S., including both long-form betting shows and "Action Updates."

Benztown, the radio imaging, voiceover, programming, podcasting and jingles business, is partnering up with a provider of digital revenue-generating products for local businesses and radio stations across the U.S. to launch what it is calling "a robust texting service and contesting and communications platform" exclusively for radio stations.

Fuse 32 was launched by Zimmer Communications in 2015. One of the big reasons: to share information and attract leads via the website. The benefit has been big, as Cathy Atkins shares in this encore RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

It's been an interesting seven days for Kohl's. The retailer's CEO exited last week to join Levi Strauss & Co. The announcement came as Kohl's stock is at its lowest value since the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gass' exit didn't have any bearing on Kohl's marketing plans. In fact, it stepped up its Spot Radio efforts.

Cox Media Group has promoted its Director of Sales for its Houston radio stations to the role of VP/Market Manager. At the same time, its Director of Sales in Orlando will now serve as the VP/Market Manager of that radio station group.

He was the heir to Larry King's late-night talk program, with 300 radio stations carrying the syndicated show. But, on October 14, his final program aired; health reasons were cited as this host's decision to retire. Indeed, Jim Bohannon was not well. On Saturday, it became known that Bohannon had passed away at the age of 78.

A September 2021 application that would have seen the creation of new service of The Public's Radio in Westerly, R.I., has been dismissed by the head of the FCC's Audio Division. Here's why Rhode Island Public Radio's plans were scrubbed by the Commission.

The sounds of 1960s-era Top 40 tunes will soon be gone from an AM with an FM translator serving the San Joaquin Valley city of Modesto, Calif. Threshold Communications has agreed to a sale of the facilities.

It is now a bit clearer as to why Robb Timm left an Annapolis, Md.-based FM station owned by Steve Kingston, the longtime radio industry programming executive, after 18 years to join a noncommercial, similarly formatted FM in Baltimore. Kingston is selling WRNR-FM, and the buyer won't keep the station's blend of programming.

One of Canada's biggest multimedia companies, which in July experienced a chilling days-long service outage, experienced a rather noteworthy achievement in Q3: Rogers Communications added 221,000 new cellphone customers. That said, the damage to the company, which owns radio and TV stations, from that massive outage was seen in the quarter.

Sports wagering is the newest hot category for broadcast media. And, it continues to evolve and expand due to regulations increasingly relaxed over the past four years. That's why Forecast 2023 will feature a fast-paced, far-reaching interview featuring SeventySix Capital Managing Partner Wayne Kimmel, conducted by former CBS Radio CEO Dan Mason.

"A combination of economic pressures and a dramatic turnover in the composition of local businesses will inflict a double-whammy on local advertising next year." That's the prognostication from 2023 Borrell forecasts. A Forecast 2023 conference session will discuss the subject in-depth.

Who says AM and FM radio is dying? A just released research study from U.K.-based Research and Markets finds that the global market for Radio broadcasting will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.6% over the analysis period of 2020-2027.