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Compass Media Networks has unveiled its 17th season of college basketball broadcasts, featuring 20 regular season games and exclusive coverage of all rounds of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament beginning on Wednesday, January 15.

Xperi is giving radio stations their first look at near-real-time competitive rankings by daypart with the new DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium, as the broadcast tech company adds a premium tier to its DTS AutoStage platform, first launched in 2023.

Good Karma Brands' Bucks+ Audio platform, in partnership with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, has officially unveiled its inaugural podcast lineup. The debut portfolio includes shows from current and former players, journalists, and a part-owner.

Pandora is offering more than 60 holiday themed channels this season. The offerings span genres, moods and decades, plus there are a number of holiday artist takeover modes.

The NPR Story Lab is a three-day audio storytelling training for member-station teams and independent producers from across the nation at NPR HQ. The workshop has selected two audio projects that will receive editorial support and $10,000 in funding to launch pilot episodes of their podcasts and create broadcast segments for NPR newsmagazines.

After more than three years off the platform, The Joe Rogan Experience has returned to Apple Podcasts. The move comes after Rogan and Spotify worked out a new contract, without the previous exclusivity clause keeping the show only on Spotify's app.

The news was sent out to over 5,000 customers using the service, announcing the shutdown would be January 31. Live 365 had hinted earlier this year that the new royalty rates were the reason it might shut down. Here's the message customers received this week.

Colombia joins Mexico and Peru as Latin American countries where consumers can tune to their favorite local FM radio stations using the NextRadio app. Later this year, additional expansion is planned to cover more Latin American countries by offering NextRadio within the Google Play Store in Brazil and Argentina.

As YouTube continues its run as the leading podcast platform, Apple Podcasts will introduce advanced video podcast capabilities this spring, expanding beyond audio into HLS-powered streaming that allows creators to distribute, monetize, and dynamically insert video ads.

Ahead of SummerSlam, SiriusXM and WWE are launching WWE Radio on channel 156, the new official audio home of WWE. Starting July 27, the channel will feature daily programming from key talent and live play-by-play of WWE’s Premium Live Events.