Audio Ink

You can’t beat free. And in an era when radio is searching for ways to grab the digital world by the horns, it would behoove all and sundry to check out Triton Digital’s free 30-minute webinar on social media, 2 p.m. ET, April 27. Those who join in will learn how to leverage social media to drive increased engagement with their brand.

The writer, producer, director, and creator of such legendary sitcoms as All In The Family, Good Times, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Maude, will debut his show on PodcastOne on May 1. Called All of the Above with Norman Lear it will feature the 95-year-old taking listeners through conversations on such disparate topics as comedy, family, current events, music, and politics. Co-hosting will be Lear’s longtime friend and sidekick Paul Hipp.

The app can now be used by consumers for FM radio smartphone listening in the South American country. This further expansion into Latin America also allows listeners to tune to their favorite FM stations in Colombia, Mexico, Peru. Later this year Brazil will also go live in the Google Play Store

Forty new SpokenEditions have been released onto iHeartMedia’s all-in-one digital music, podcasting, and live-streaming radio service. SpokenEditions draws from written content from premium publishers. SpokenEditions provides access to audio versions of some of the top written publications across a number of subjects.

All 53 Radio One radio stations and seven national network personalities will now use Clip Interactive to deliver interactive broadcast and streaming content feeds to listeners via Clip-built mobile apps and web players. The deal was signed after Radio One tested the products for seven months at its Washington, DC cluster.

iHeartRadio has won a Shorty Award for Best In Live Events. Shorty Awards recognize "the most influential, popular, and culturally relevant brands and influencers across social media." For the second year in a row iHeartRadio is a winner for Best In Live Events for the iHeartRadio Music Festival. iHeartRadio also won the category’s fan-voted Audience Honor for the festival.

The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, located in Canada, owns 43 radio stations. Thursday the company announced it was partnering with SoCast to centralize digital operations for all of its radio stations.

jacapps is teaming up with Ford at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas for an event called the Connected Car Hackathon. Coders and developers will compete to develop dashboard solutions that will enable audio and video content for in-vehicle consumption in today's vehicles, and in autonomous vehicles in the future.

Controversial Olivia Caridi, a Season 20 contestant on the reality dating show The Bachelor, now has her own podcast, Mouthing Off with Olivia Caridi. Caridi will welcome actors, friends an,d fellow reality TV and Internet stars to dish about love, relationships, and navigating the ups and downs of being single and dating.

The former Seattle Seahawks quarterback will host Above and Beyond – The Intersection of Faith and Sports, beginning  April 11. The first episode will features another former Seahawks QB – Matt Hasselbeck. The podcast is a joint venture between 710 ESPN Seattle and the Bonneville Seattle Media Group.