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Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan has joined the Pandora Billionaires Club. Pandora says Gaffigan is the first stand-up comic to reach a billion audio streams.

The National Hockey League returns to the ice August 1 with a special, limited game season. Westwood One in conjunction with NBC Sports will carry the games through the Stanley Cup Finals this fall.

UNINTERRUPTED Radio has landed on Pandora. The curated station features music that top NBA and WNBA players listen to, packaged in three selectable modes.

Audio imaging company created the new site with the EuroArt team in Croatia. And of course audio is highlighted throughout the site. Check it out HERE.

With the NBA set to resume its season Thursday, SiriusXM will return to providing play-by-play of every game, including every playoff game. Listeners who use the SiriusXM app get access to the local broadcasts of their favorite teams.

It's still 6 months away but a show that draws as big a crowd as CES does has to be close to impossible to plan with a raging International pandemic. And for that reason, CES organizers have made an early call to go virtual for their January 2021 show. More here from Gary Shapiro.

Volkswagen is the latest manufacturer to offer SiriusXM's newest audio entertainment platform. The service will be offered in most 2021 model year vehicles.

The season begins tomorrow night and SiriusXM will carry every game of MLB's shortened 60-game 2020 regular season, as well as every game of the 2020 postseason.

On July 1, NAB Leadership Foundation President Michelle Duke was appointed to the newly created role of chief diversity officer for NAB. Michelle outlines her new position, discusses the importance of diversity and inclusion in broadcasting and details NAB's upcoming diversity initiative. LISTEN

SiriusXM and BMW have announced that SiriusXM with 360L will be available to BMW customers for the first time in most of the 2021 BMW model year. The first models equipped with the platform are expected to be available later this summer.