Audio Ink

In a blog post, Pandora Chief Revenue Officer John Trimble announced a new network strategy in partnership with popular streaming outlets TuneIn and AccuRadio. Trimble writes, "Harmonic Audio Network will provide advertisers with the scale and simplicity they're used to, plus the quality they need to plan more effective network buys. We are excited to take this important first step to revolutionize network audio, and look forward to partnering with more premium publishers in the future."

Mary Burney has joined NextRadio's TagStation as the National Sales Director. She joins the company from iHeartMedia in Detroit, where she was National AE. Prior to iHeartMedia, Burney was an Account Executive with Bell Media Radio in Canada. She also worked at Clear Channel Radio Sales in Troy, Radio One in Detroit and Interep National Radio Sales.

Counter-terrorism expert and television commentator Allison Barrie now has her own podcast. Tactical Talk with Allison Barrie will feature men and women who have served the United States in the military, intelligence, and first responders’ space.

DGital Media and Sports Illustrated have announced the latest addition to their partnership, The Seth Davis Podcast, which will launch November 15.

Triton Digital reports streaming continues to see steady growth when compared to a year ago. Both streaming pureplays and AM/FM broadcasters showed growth during the Monday-Friday 6a-8p daypart and the Monday-Sunday 6a-midnight daypart. The Sports format showed the largest listening gains up 16.9 percent, followed by News/Talk at 4.0 percent. Check out the September Triton ranker HERE.

Westwood One has signed an ad rep deal with Nashville Insider and Lifestyle personality Caroline Hobby and KQRS Morning Show host Tom Barnard. They both join the network’s Podcast & On-Demand platform.

PodcastOne has launched The Chick Show, a new, weekly “girl party” podcast hosted by 15-year friends Lisa Ann Walter and Rosa Blasi. Here's what they will talk about every week...

Chris Peterson has been named Senior VP of Podcasting for iHeartRadio and Beth Murphy joins iHeartRadio as the Senior VP of Marketing. Previously, Peterson served as the Content Partnerships Manager for TuneIn. He has also worked as the Director of Operations for The Blaze and as Director of Affiliate Relations for Premiere. Murphy was the CMO at Deezer as well as the CMO at Stitcher.

The Jersey rockers are the latest act to get their own channel on SiriusXM. The limited-run channel will be dedicated to the band's music and will culminate with a private performance by Bon Jovi at a secret location in Miami on December 3.

In a continued sign that Podcasting is growing and NPR takes the medium very seriously, Neal Carruth has been hired as the organizations first General Manager for Podcasting. Poynter reports the supervising senior editor for NPR's business desk will oversee "Planet Money," "Embedded," "Hidden Brain," "Code Switch," "Pop Culture Happy Hour" and NPR's Politics podcast.