Audio Ink

McVay Media is helping a former executive turn his story of success, struggle, and faith into audio. Myron Mullins' new book and podcast, Regret Free, speak to high-achieving men rediscovering purpose, with production and coaching support from McVay.

Two Pac-12 basketball championship games will share one day, and one national audio broadcaster, in Las Vegas. Compass Media Networks will carry both as part of a multi-year national audio deal that also adds the conference's football championship, with coverage kicking off this December.

Radio-backed scripted storytelling is competing on podcasting's awards stage. A six-episode disaster drama from Benztown + McVay Media Podcast Networks is a Signal Awards finalist for its voice acting, and fans now have a say in a separate award decided by public vote.

Alice Cooper is adding a satellite gig. The host of syndicated Alice's Attic and Radio Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper will launch his own weekly program on SiriusXM's Little Steven's Underground Garage, the rock channel created by Stevie Van Zandt.

Live play-by-play for all 32 NHL teams is back on satellite radio as the new season begins. SiriusXM is backing every game with NHL Network Radio's daily analysis, a weekday morning show, and team-specific channels in its app, now in the channel's 22nd year.

A year after launching as a syndicator, Radiocraft has found an ad sales home for its two biggest shows. Compass Media Networks will represent TJ Taormina's morning program and Mason Kelter's nightly Top 40 request show to advertisers starting at the top of 2027.

Radio companies are well represented among podcasting's finalists for the fifth annual Signal Awards. iHeartMedia, Audacy, NPR, and a string of public radio stations from New Hampshire to West Texas are competing for honors to be announced in October.

Garth Brooks is parting ways with TuneIn after three years of running the SEVENS Radio Network together, a split brought on by TuneIn's recent sale to Stingray Group. Two of the network's stations are already gone, but Brooks says a new broadcast venture is coming.

iHeart Audience Network held on to the top spot in Triton Digital's latest US Podcast Ranker for August, though its once-wide lead over Audioboom and Cumulus Podcast Network continues to narrow, according to newly released weekly download figures.

Yaman Media Group founder Yaman Coskun has signed on as the exclusive business development partner for an AI voice platform, tasked with pitching the roster of real, professionally cloned voice talent to radio, advertising agencies, and podcast producers.