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SiriusXM released second quarter 2022 results that were "in line" with Pivotal Research Group Principal and Internet/Media/Communications Analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak's assessment of the nation's satellite radio purveyor. It reiterated its full-year financial guidance while offering "an unsurprising reduction" in its 2022 self-pay net additions forecasts. How did Wlodarczak respond?

In late March, Doris and Monte Miller proceeded with a plan designed to ensure the family’s media holdings, which date to the 1880s, continue to generate profit while bringing luster back to a legacy that includes The A.Q. Miller Family School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University, named after Monte’s father — Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It is now known that those media holdings will substantively shrink in number as the elder Millers seek to emerge from debtor-in-possession status.

As August began, so did the second quarter earnings season for broadcast media companies, putting all eyes on Beasley. Will the company be the trendsetter for audio content creation and distribution companies for the three-month period ending June 30? Perhaps the hopeful answer is "no."

The battle between GeoBroadcasting Solutions and the NAB over the permissive use of FM Boosters for program origination — crux to GBS' rollout of ZoneCasting technology — continued on Monday with letters in support of, and in opposition of, the plan presently under consideration at the FCC. Supporting the rule change: None other than a former Commissioner. Speaking against ZoneCasting: A House of Representatives Member who once hosted a syndicated Talk program airing weekends across Oklahoma.

She spent 16 years at Cumulus Media, and some 20 years ago was a regional promotions director for Reprise Records serving Virginia and the Carolinas. Now, this programming and operations veteran has the PD title for two rock-and-roll stations serving San Antonio while taking on the greater role of Operations Manager under VP/GM David Abel.

In Central Florida, "Z88.3" has long been one of the region's top sources of Christian music. Now, an asset swap is being engineered that will give WPOZ entry into the Gainesville-Ocala market. Oh, and there's a purchase in the works, too.

After a test of the technology at one of its suburban Chicago FMs, Alpha Media declared that "the substantial investment" necessary in ZoneCasting's deployment may be impossible to swallow for those who could best benefit from it. GeoBroadcast Solutions, the company behind ZoneCasting, disputes Alpha Media's cost analysis.

Salem Media Group plans to report its second quarter 2022 financial results after U.S. financial markets close on August 4. What can investors expect to hear from the company growing its podcast division and building out an OTT-delivered video news channel?

He is a veteran of the Portland, Ore., radio market, and has been associated with iHeartMedia and its predecessor companies for a quarter century. Now, this individual who started out as an account executive in 1997 has risen to the top for the company's stations in the Rose City.

Alex Quintero is busy this week leading the launch of the all-new Radio Resources, described by parent company Gen Media Partners as “a tool kit for radio broadcasters that’s tailored for small and medium-market owners and operators." To find out more about this just-launched venture, we welcome Alex, who serves as Radio Resources' Director of Products and Services, to the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

She's a University of San Diego alum and has been with iHeartMedia and its predecessors for nearly three decades. Now, the Sr. VP of Sales for its stations in San Diego and Riverside-San Bernardino is getting a promotion. Effective July 31, she'll be the Market President for iHeartMedia San Diego. What does this mean for Melissa Forrest?

The National Football League and SiriusXM have agreed to a five-year extension of their broadcasting and marketing agreement. That's good news for SiriusXM subscribers, and extends an arrangement dating to 2004. And, for SiriusXM, there's a particular sweetness to the new deal, as it will become the exclusive third-party audio provider of every NFL game across North America. What does this mean to SiriusXM subscribers?

The Museum of Broadcast Communications has unveiled the nine new inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2022. The 2022 Radio Hall of Fame inductees will be honored at the in-person 2022 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on November 1 at Chicago’s Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel.

On the WTCC-FM lineup serving Western Massachusetts is a weekly program hosted by a state representative. With an election looming, that's something frustrating his challenger, who has filed a complaint with the FCC seeking his exit — something a candidate for Lee County, Fla., School Board did in exiting the morning show of a popular Top 40 radio station owned by Beasley Media Group.

"I swear it still feels like podcasting is just getting started." That's a quote from iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group CEO Conal Byrne, speaking to Yahoo! Finance's Ali Canal and two colleagues. They participated in a 10-minute conversation distributed Friday by the online financial news organization, and it put a big spotlight on the nation's No. 1 audio creation and distribution company's podcasting prowess.