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SiriusXM, the Big Ten Network, and the Big Ten Conference announced Thursday the launch of SiriusXM Big Ten Radio on October 22. The 24/7 channel will offer in-depth access to Big Ten-focused sports talk and news

NBA Hall of Famer and DJ Shaquille O'Neal has joined Live365 with his Internet radio station ShaqFu Radio. ShaqFu Radio features all of Shaq's favorite music as well as live DJ sets by Shaq (a.k.a. "DJ Diesel") himself.

Registration is open for radio stations to participate in Jacobs Media's Techsurvey 2019. This year's study will launch in early January. Stations have until December 21 to sign up HERE. The technology survey for radio included information from over 560 radio stations last year.

Triton Digital announced on Wednesday that Planet Broadcasting, Australia's largest independent podcast network, has selected Triton Digital to power the delivery and monetization of its podcast content.

Google’s latest device will be available October 22 and iHeartRadio has already staked out its turf. The new devices are powered by the Google Assistant to operate and support your household just as it does on speakers, but with the added benefit of a touch screen. iHeartRadio has already teamed up with Google to bring music to the devices.

Digital advertising platform Dax has signed a multi-year deal with pureplay online radio service AccuRadio, solidifying DAX as AccuRadio’s exclusive sales partner in the US across all national sales channels.

Veteran programmer Scott Lindy has joined the Partner Success team at Futuri Media. Lindy was most recently PD at Country station WKHX Kicks 101.5 Atlanta and Cumulus corporate Program Director.

Hip hop pioneer Shante will host a new two-hour daily show exclusively on LL COOL J's Rock The Bells Radio on SiriusXM. 

On Wednesday the two companies announced that Pandora will take over handling the U.S. advertising for SoundCloud. Under the deal, Pandora becomes the exclusive operator of SoundCloud’s advertising business.

The three companies are launching a new attribution product for radio that will offer marketers a combination of iHeartMedia’s reach and Jelli’s programmatic buying capabilities, with the attribution and insights tools from location technology company Foursquare.