Audio Ink

On Tuesday, Triton Digital announced that entertainment company NOVA in Australia has joined its a2x programmatic audio advertising exchange.

Starting today, former Chicago radio star Mike North begins hosting a new podcast called "Mike North: Sticks and Stones." Chicagoland Radio and Media has the details about the podcast which North will host from his Chicago home studio and will run 30 minutes long.

The two companies announced Wednesday that qualifying vehicle owners who visit any one of the more than 600 Sears Auto Centers can drive away with a complimentary two-month SiriusXM subscription through SiriusXM's Service Lane program. Sears Auto associates are now able to immediately check eligibility when a vehicle is brought in for service and activate a complimentary two-month SiriusXM subscription.

The five-time NBA all-star's new podcast is called Fearless or Insane With Chris Webber. The weekly show will be about sports and athletes, and their impact on culture, politics, and society.

PodcastOne and Southern Cross Austereo have signed a long-term partnership to create PodcastOne Australia. SCA will operate PodcastOne Australia as the exclusive partner in Australia and New Zealand, with select SCA podcasts made available in the U.S. on the PodcastOne platform. PodcastOne Australia will be available early in 2017.

The new Newsfeed feature on NextRadio provides station-centric content, such as trending Tweets from the user’s favorite radio shows. Other content pushed by NextRadio Newsfeed is specific to the user’s favorite formats and includes artist and song facts, the day’s hottest song, and which artists are coming to town with the ability to buy tickets through Vivid Seats.

Dr. Ronald Hoffman’s syndicated Intelligent Medicine show airs on more than 100 stations, including flagship WOR-AM in NYC. Now the podcast of the same name is matching that success, having just surpassed 3 million downloads.

The network will begin distributing the award-winning Spanish-language podcast Radio Ambulante on November 22.The show uses long-form reportage to broadcast under-reported Latin American and Latino stories.

Entravision has announced that it will host its third annual "Noche de Locura con Erazno y La Chokolata" on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. The event will take place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will honor Las Vegas declaring November 23 as the official Erazno y La Chokolata Day, and celebrate the show's 13th anniversary.

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."