Audio Ink

A Detroit jazz radio institution has returned after more than 25 years of silence in a new form. WJZZ, known during its original tenure as the world's oldest jazz station, has been revived in an unexpected way by a Motor City native.

As the 2023 PGA Championship approaches, SiriusXM is prepping its coverage with Westwood One. Live play-by-play from Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, NY will begin at 1 pm ET on Thursday, May 18 and run through the 21st.

After ending The Garth Channel's six-year run on SiriusXM last October, Garth Brooks is teaming up with TuneIn on a new dedicated radio product. This summer, Garth Brooks will launch SEVENS Radio Network on the free streaming audio platform.

Triton Digital has partnered with Audacia to represent the Triton Audio Marketplace inventory in the Asia Pacific region. The partnership will allow advertisers in Audacia's network to access Triton's analytics platform for real-time reporting and help with audio inventory.

Mercedes-Benz USA and SiriusXM have extended and expanded their services agreement. The companies announced a start year for making SiriusXM a standard feature on all Mercedes-Benz models available in the United States. The companies debuted more details about SXM's 360L.

Cumulus Media is launching the fourth installment of its new multi-week audio series, Your Music First, featuring Thirty Seconds To Mars’ new single, “Stuck." The series will air over the next four weeks across Cumulus’ Mainstream Rock and Alternative stations nationwide.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is set to host a new talk radio show called "The Resistance with Sheriff Alex Villanueva" on CRN Digital Talk Radio. The online show will focus on public safety, law enforcement, and homelessness.

It's another baby step in what will likely become an outright fight between publishers and AI-generated music. Major audio streamer Spotify has pulled a number of artificial-intelligence-made tracks by the creation app Boomy, but this time it's a different issue than when UMG pulled an AI Drake and Weeknd song.

Live-streaming radio app TuneIn has partnered with business and financial publisher Dow Jones to bring WSJ Radio to the platform with curated audio content from Dow Jones publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch.

The introduction of Major League Baseball's pitch clock this season has been praised by some for speeding up what some considered a sport in peril. But shorter games mean cut content, and sometimes radio broadcasters have to cut what they (and the audience) love to make time.