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While KPCC has been known for such programs as the Larry Mantle-hosted AirTalk, a fixture since April 1985, its LAist podcast and news feature service has exploded in stature since its relaunch under KPCC leadership five years ago. Now, Southern California Public Radio believes the LAist brand is so big, it should be applied to its broadcast operation.

Nielsen has agreed to market Edison Research’s "Share of Ear" and "Edison Podcast Metrics" services to advertising agencies — a move that bolsters the work Larry Rosin and his Edison Research team have done to grow the audio space "by providing information about the total audio audience to planners and buyers."

George Flinn Jr.'s radio properties until now have also included a Class A FM serving Nevada's second-largest market until recently as "Reno's Crazy 80's," through an arrangement with Lee Adams. Now, change is coming to this facility, as Flinn is selling it.

If one wanted to hear Jimmy Cefalo, Joe Rose or Kim Bokamper as their game-day voices of preference as the Miami Dolphins battled it out on the field, they'd have to tune to Audacy-owned WQAM or sibling WKIS-FM in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market. Now, after seven seasons, the Dolphins radio flagship is shifting back to iHeartMedia.

Edison Research has commissioned two U.S. podcast thought leadership studies to be presented in first quarter of 2023. The findings are designed to look at the listening habits of two distinct and important consumers groups when it comes to on-demand audio choices.

Edison Research has released a new report that spotlights the most-efficient podcasts for ad buyers across four domestic regions. The data was based on Edison's Effiency Ranker, which is meant to help ad buyers and sellers focus on the most-efficient podcasts to target key demos and reduce waste.

A town in Lowndes County, Ga., with less than 1,000 residents was poised to become the city of license for a new noncommercial FM radio station, a religious operation to be run by Elijah Radio. Now, however, the FCC has changed its mind, and is rescinding its decision to name Elijah its tentative selectee in NCE MX Group 59B.

At the 2022 NAB Show, he was a VIP guest everyone wanted to meet at a special reception hosted in part by the Radio + Television Business Report at the Bellagio. Just before COVID-19 arrived in North America, at the 2020 NATPE Miami affair, he was touted as the biggest star at the Fontainebleau, with radio and TV gigs fueling his popularity. Now, Nick Cannon's career is in transition, as his syndicated morning radio program is coming to a close.

As of February 1, iHeartMedia will have a new Metro President overseeing its six audio brands serving Atlanta.  He reports to Division President Kim Guthrie, and joins the market from iHeartMedia’s Texas region, where he’s served as the Area President since 2021. 

Midwest Communications has announced the successor to the late Duke Wright. Wright, the company's founder and President/CEO, died on December 21. Filling the role of President is an individual who first joined the company in 1985 by taking a sales position at WIXX in Green Bay, Wisc.

From the autumn of 2010 through early 2017,  a company led by Charlie Banta and Sandra Miller owned a San Francisco Bay Area AM that had once been one of the biggest regional Mexican players in the region. It was sold for $6 million. Now, the company that made that deal is spinning the AM for less than half of that price. For Punjabi American Media, it further grows its radio network in the Golden State.

In San Antonio and across Hill Country, Texas Public Radio is the main source for NPR programming and non-commercial informational programming that is non-secular in nature. Now, it is gaining attention for successfully convincing the head of the Media Bureau's Audio Division, Al Shuldiner, to nix the tentative selectee for MX Group 196 in the FCC's noncommercial FM November 2021 filing window.

Want to hit the slopes but aren't sure of what the current conditions are? You're in luck, thanks to an expanded partnership between The Weather Channel and Skyview Networks.

He spent more than three decades at Adult Alternative WXRT-FM 93.1 in Chicago until stepping aside last summer, a battle with cancer preventing him from continuing on the air. On Sunday, Lin Brehmer passed away at the age of 68, the Audacy Corp. station said in a statement.

Hey, broadcast radio — looking for ways to extend your reach? Why not a built-in app on a smart television? SiriusXM has just done that, thanks to a partnership with a popular TV set brand.