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Ask any audio editor or producer who’s ever worked with music in the podcasting space and they’ll tell you the same thing: it’s a pain to find good music you’re actually allowed to use. This Podcast Business Journal column from Casey Franco sheds some light on the subject -- a touchy one, given the latest GMR/RMLC battle news.

While cross-ownership rule changes nixed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals forced Cox Media Group to sell three daily newspapers in the Dayton-Springfield DMA to Cox Enterprises and has placed other newspaper/radio deals on hold, the owner of a publication in Utah has decided to purchase a Class C2 FM and an associated FM translator. It's perfectly permissable.

For longtime radio industry professionals, John Beck is best-known for his nearly 35 years at Emmis Communications. He is the last SVP of the company's now-divested St. Louis stations. After Emmis, Beck dipped into station ownership as a partner on an Arizona deal. Now, he's purchased an FM translator in the place he's called home since 1983.

Slow, steady and even infinitesimal growth is still growth, right? That's the positive spin the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group is putting on its just-released findings from its annual MIW Gender Analysis Study -- at least when it comes to the GM role.

Word Broadcasting Network has operated three Louisville stations licensed to Salem Media Group under a Local Marketing Agreement since January 2017. Thirty-seven months later, the Word is the bird: It's officially flying away with the properties, marking another sale of non-essential assets as Salem struggles with stock prices last seen in July 2009.

One of the nation's leading Hispanic media companies has selected online contesting, marketing, revenue and promotions firm Aptivada to provide all of its stations "online promotions solutions" -- a move that could give this company's LaMusica.com a bit of a boost.

The owners of a small radio station serving the northernmost communities of greater Los Angeles have been stuck in Yokohama, Japan, on a Princess Cruises luxury liner -- quarantined to their rooms due to the coronavirus. On Tuesday evening, local time, they checked in with RBR+TVBR and Radio Ink to provide an update on their situation.

The owner of Pandora is taking a further leap into the podcast/audio-on-demand universe by purchasing millions in SoundCloud securities, taking a minority investment in the operation. The funds will be used to "accelerate" SoundCloud's product development and enhance the services that fuel its global community of creators and listeners.

The broadcast media company, which owns the Cadence 13 podcasting entity and is the parent of the Radio.com streaming app, will host a conference call two weeks from Tuesday to review the results and what it terms "recent progress against its strategic initiatives." Here's what investors expect to hear from President/CEO David Field and CFO Rich Schmaeling.

Entercom's all-News station serving the Delaware Valley -- a former Group W and, later, CBS Radio property -- is now getting attention for partnering up with the two NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations serving Philadelphia for a content-sharing agreement. Sources ensure that the move doesn't impact jobs at the cluster, and the NBC deal simply replaces one with the CBS O&O.

Records truly is his middle name. Soon, John Landecker can also boast that he truly is a Hall of Fame inductee. The NAB will induct the longtime former "Musicradio 89 WLS" voice into its broadcasting hall on April 20 as part of the 2020 NAB Show. Landecker's career also includes a stint at another Chicago station, WJMK-FM, and stops in Cleveland, Toronto and Philadelphia.

On Monday, Feb. 3, YouTube and Google parent Alphabet disclosed for the first time specific revenue figures for the world's most popular on-demand video hub. For fiscal 2019, the revenue for YouTube advertising was in the billions. It was slightly more than what U.S. radio broadcasters have likely attracted during the same period.

Exactly two years after former Top 40 KDND-FM "107.9 The End" signed off the air, with programming moving to another Entercom station serving Sacramento, the FCC has provided a "clarification" concerning a Construction Permit being offered in Auction 106 that will bring a brand-new radio station to the facility formerly used by KDND.

Thursday marked another gloomy trading session for Salem Media Group, which will see company representatives pitching itself to investors later this month at Noble Capital Markets’ Sixteenth Annual Institutional Investor Conference in Hollywood, Fla. SALM is trading at its lowest price since the summer of 2009.

The FCC believes satellite companies don’t need the entire C-band to provide the services to broadcast radio and TV stations they are providing today. That's why knowing what is in draft rules released Thursday by Chairman Ajit Pai that would reform the use of the C-band could be essential to your business.