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Audacy has launched “Ultimate Mock Draft 2021,” a six-episode series leading up to the NFL Draft in partnership with the Locked On Podcast Network. The series will be released in 45-minute episodes, weekdays from April 19 to April 26 on the Audacy app and website.

With a 2021 goal of $60,000, Bold Gold Media's 43rd Annual WSUL-FM virtual Heart-A-Thon raised over $95,000 thanks to hundreds of local organizations, businesses and individuals throughout the Sullivan Catskills in New York.

Radio Works for Restaurants is the new Business Accelerated presentation from the RAB. The live video presentation is set for April 21.

The University of Florida has a new radio home, 1010XL/92.5 FM. The four-year agreement will make the station the home for all Gators football and men’s basketball games, as well as conference and other selected baseball games, plus all Gators talk shows.

Jeff Berardelli will lead a five-part radio series on climate change. The reports will be featured all week in CBS News Radio’s top of the hour broadcasts, on World News Roundup and on Weekend Roundup. The series starts today.

Former Alpha Media CEO Larry Wilson, who was pushed out of the company back in 2018, has filed a 191 page document with the FCC that accuses his former company of misleading the FCC, making decisions without proper board approval and challenging Alpha's qualifications as a broadcast licensee.

NAB CEO, and former Senator, Gordon Smith testified Thursday before the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing titled Shot of Truth: Communicating Trusted Vaccine Information. Smith told Senators Americans turn to broadcasters first in times of emergency as a reliable source of information.

NPR and Edison Research have released data from a joint study the two organizations conducted with 1,500 radio listeners in January of this year. The study was called Radio: Live on Air and Everywhere, and it delved into why listeners tune into radio.

We've often written about the lengthy stopsets radio stations around the country force listeners to sit through and the impact that has on an industry competing against other platforms that deliver more content and fewer ads per hour.