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It's a multi-year partnership with Loyal Ears Digital which will now allow Westwood to offer free fantasy sports and entertainment games to stations for their websites. Westwood reminds us that these games are 100% legal and bring "all the excitement that comes with fantasy gaming." There will be local and national winners every week and client branding opportunities.

There's not much more that a streaming-only company can do, so while radio stations around the country, especially those in Orlando, put together fundraisers, roundtable discussions, and wall-to-wall news coverage about the terrorist attack in Orlando, Spotify has created a 40-song playlist called "Pulse."

The new channel will be called Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio and will launch on Wednesday, June 15 in celebration of the band's new studio album, The Getaway, to be released June 17. Chris Rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers super fan, will host the limited-run channel. Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio will feature music spanning the band's entire career.

In its April digital ranker, Triton is reporting that mobile listening made up 76.2% of total listening during the M-F 6A-8P daypart, which was an all-time high. When compared to March, the Urban AC format showed the largest listening gain with a 9.4 percent increase in Average Active Sessions.

Adrianna Costa, Haute Mom’s Life blog, has launched a podcast component to the brand, in partnership with PodcastOne. Costa extends the “celebration of the Hottie in every Mommy” in the new Haute Mom’s Life podcast.

WeWork is a shared office company with about 90 locations and 60,000 members all over the world. The new partnership has iHeart creating live stations for the company, along with targeted podcast content and a new studio which was built at the WeWork New York City heardquarters for interviews, events, and performances.

In May, and for the third consecutive month, ESPN Audio broke its record for the number of podcast impressions – 41.2 million, an increase of 35% over the previous May (30.7 million), and breaks the records set in March (38.9 million) and in April (39.0). Who did listeners download the most? Let's find out...

Capitol Broadcasting Radio has something new for sports fans: streaming video of its North Carolina sports shows. Ten hours of daily program delivered via website and app.

Slacker Radio is being included in a new U.S. Cellular customer promotion. New customers who qualify for the promotion will receive a free one-year membership to Slacker Premium as part of the bonus package.

Trekkies are in for a treat. CBS RADIO, CBS Local Digital Media, and CBS Consumer Products announced, Wednesday, the launch of “Engage: The OFFICIAL Star Trek Podcast,” which will be exclusively hosted on the podcast platform Play.it.