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Select Live365 stations are now available to audio streamers via the iHeartRadio app, a move that significantly increases the visibility and discoverability of Live365 stations and the entire Live365 network of music enthusiasts who fork over a monthly fee to create their own radio stations.

In this latest InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, Pamal/Hudson Valley Market Manager and former Interep executive Bruce Feniger shares how Pamal has carved a niche within the nation's No. 1 DMA — and attracts advertisers and consumers in ways New York City-based radio and TV stations can't.

Enrique Santos, the syndicated Spanish-language morning talent based at iHeartMedia's WZTU-FM "Tú 94.9" in Miami, is known for discussing such topics as "Do you tell your partner when someone flirts with you?" and "My co-worker asked me to be his lover." That will continue, along with Santos' other corporate duties, thanks to a new contract.

"SiriusXM turned in a great performance across the board," company CEO Jennifer Witz said as she opened the satellite radio company's first quarter earnings call on Wednesday. "Like many companies, we are benefiting from Americans getting back on the road, growing auto sales and consumer incomes bolstered by significant federal stimulus."

How did it go for popular audio streaming company Spotify in the first quarter of 2021? Futuresource Consulting lead market analyst for music and audio Alexandre Jornod digested the numbers early today from London, and offers up the details.

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, Jacobson catches up with the CEO of Pacific Media Group, gaining insight into whether or not COVID-19 curbed rapid growth for the company, which today includes local news-focused websites competing head-to-head with Oahu-based TV groups. LISTEN HERE

In 2015, after working in Washington, D.C., for several years, she joined iHeartMedia. Most recently, this radio industry pro served as Region SVP of Sales for the company once known as Clear Channel Communications in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood market. Now, she's been promoted to Market President.

The Silicon Valley-based technology company says the investment will help bring AI-fueled voice ads to more brands, audio and video content publishers, and consumers. Progress Ventures leads the round, with Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments participating.

From 1959 through June 2005, he was a fixture on Dallas radio — even though he used a fictitious identity for his first six years in North Texas. Now, the radio industry is pausing to mourn one of its most beloved air personalities of all time.

Our editor-in-chief had a dream last night that he was running a Top 40 radio station. After recalling the key points of what he saw as he slept, he wishes that it wasn't a figment of a fantasy, but rather a blueprint to fix a format reliving 1991 — not a good thing, for all you kids out there.

The FCC has adopted new sponsorship identification requirements to require broadcasters to disclose when foreign governments or their representatives lease time on their airwaves. The Order "increases transparency, ensuring audiences are aware when a foreign government, or its representatives, uses the airwaves to persuade the American public."

He was most recently the head of programming for Cumulus Media's Country WDRQ-FM and Hot Adult Contemporary WDVD-FM in Detroit, a role recently given to David Corey. Now, he's the Program Director for a pair of similarly formatted FM radio stations in the home market for SummitMedia.

Across the Southeast's biggest emerging Hispanic markets, perhaps no company has invested more in reaching this Spanish-language audio content consumer of late than Norsan Media. Now, it is grabbing what will become its third radio brand in the largest city in the U.S. by square miles.

Say goodbye to the Westwood One Podcast Network. Starting May 6, it will have a new name — one that reflects WWO's parent company.

Tune to 1230 kHz in Westchester County, and you'll hear a Cumulus Media Sports Talker using a facility licensed for 1,000 watts from 1 tower located between the Sprain Brook Parkway and Interstate 87. Come May 24, it will become the third AM station in the nation to abandon its analog signal.