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Tonight (from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.) Walter Sterling will be filling in for Jim Bohannon on the syndicated The Jim Bohannon Show. Sterling is the host of Sterling On Sunday, on WPHT/Philadelphia.

And audio content is hot these days, just look at what Spotify is up to. If Tuesday's Bloomberg story is true, Apple executives who see Spotify and others making big moves in the audio content space, want to be sure they don't lose their massive lead with consumers who use their service to listen to podcasts.

The 2019 recipients for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks program have been selected. The program is presented by the RAB, BMI, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group. 29 people will attend the two-day seminar next month at the BMI Nashville office.

On July 15, 2015, Perot Company Petrus Holding invested in Connoisseur Media, which at the time had 42 stations in 12 markets. On July 16, 2019, exactly four years later, CEO Jeff Warshaw announced the company completed a buyout and management will own substantially all the company.

In early October, ESPN will debut The ESPN Daily, a podcast that will be published five times per week. ESPN didn't have many details about the new show other than to tout it will be "appointment listening" for sports fans. 

Westwood One News is set to cover the next Democratic Presidential debates from Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 30 and 31. The debates will feature 20 candidates over the course of the two nights.

National radio syndicator MannGroup Radio has inked a deal to syndicate Loyal Ears Digital central radio property Fantasy Free, the digital fantasy sports gaming network designed for radio.

That's what a new report from Westwood One and Canadian research firm Audience Insights says after the two companies released a study of 1,407 podcast listeners. Here are the highlights from that study.

The company filed an 8K that reported revenue of $913 million for April, May and June, an increase of 2.4% over the $892 million reported in the second quarter of 2018. The NASDAQ also approved iHeart which will begin trading this week.

KPRC-AM talker Ken Webster says he's been suspended from Facebook for using the for using the phrase “illegal immigrant." Newsbusters was first to report the story. Here are the details.