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Hip hop pioneer Shante will host a new two-hour daily show exclusively on LL COOL J's Rock The Bells Radio on SiriusXM. 

On Wednesday the two companies announced that Pandora will take over handling the U.S. advertising for SoundCloud. Under the deal, Pandora becomes the exclusive operator of SoundCloud’s advertising business.

The three companies are launching a new attribution product for radio that will offer marketers a combination of iHeartMedia’s reach and Jelli’s programmatic buying capabilities, with the attribution and insights tools from location technology company Foursquare.

United Stations Radio Networks and SoCast are teaming up to introduce a service for stations called SMART SPEAKER V.A.L.E.T.

Slacker Radio debuted Shoudout, a new content monetization and social platform, on Slacker's Pop Remix channel. Slacker says Shoudout was inspired by the old radio "shout outs."

Digital solutions provider SoCast has launched a new digital ad platform called SoCast Ads. The new product was created to help local sellers use data from their station’s website, app, and social media pages along with other digital products.

Tech company Vipology has announced long-term partnerships with nationally recognized broadcasters Local Media San Diego, Leighton Broadcasting, Auburn Network Inc., Dickey Broadcasting Company, Big Thicket Broadcasting, and Mapleton Broadcasting to VS3 (Vipology Smart Speaker System), via Amazon’s Alexa.

SiriusXM has announced that Chris Cuomo will host an exclusive two-hour weekday program on SiriusXM P.O.T.U.S. channel 124. Let's Get After It with Chris Cuomo will premiere on Monday, September 24, 12:00 p.m.-2 p.m. ET.

Radio syndicator MannGroup Radio and app company VoiceByte have joined forces to bring VoiceByte to radio in North America.

Christine Brennan and former professional tennis player Rennae Stubbs have signed with SiriusXM to host a new weekly show that will air nationwide on the Dan Patrick Radio channel (channel 211).