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Those were the words of David Field, Wednesday, after taking a question about the announced Shazam ratings service. Entercom and three other companies announced they were launching a new app-based ratings service with Shazam, although the details about the service were minimal, and when it will be ready is unknown.

The nice comments (and a few not so nice) from industry veterans about former RBR/TVBR Publisher Jim Carnegie are piling up following the announcement of his death, and Eric Rhoads' editorial about his friendship with Carnegie. We heard from Walter Sabo, Joe Bilotta, Katy Bachman, Dick Taylor, and Barry O'Brien, just to name a few. In cased you missed it yesterday, here's the link to the editorial and the comments.

The 2016 NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show will be hosted by WCBS-FM morning man Scott Shannon.

When consumers listen to local radio, the DJ's will tell them when a band or artist, in the format they're enjoying, come to town for a contest. Now, when you give an artist a thumbs up in Pandora, you'll get a notification when that artist is making a stop near your town. And one tap will send you to the ticket purchase page. Pandora purchased Ticketfly last year for $450 million.

The Current has the details about public radio’s Car Talk which is now airing as "best of" on 654 stations. That will end September 30, 2017.

Subscribers will start receiving our most popular issue of the year today as it makes its way around the country via snail mail and digital download. Our 2016 power issue is the most successful -- and thickest -- Top 40 issue in nearly a decade, packed with great support from radio's vendors, new Top 40 lists, interviews with radio's 40 Most Powerful, and a special feature on Radio One founder Cathy Hughes, who will be given the 2016 Radio Ink Lifetime Leadership Award later this year at Forecast.

(by Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) Tuesday I had a feeling that I should call Jim Carnegie. No reason except that we hadn’t talked in a while since I purchased RBR-TVBR from him, and he was on my mind. On Wednesday, I learned of his passing.

In Radio Ink's 2016 40 Most Powerful People in Radio issue, out this week, you'll be reading many quotes like this one from radio's most powerful. This powerful quote about management and leadership comes from a CEO that has been on our list every year since 1997.

After a week that saw Liberty Media, which has a 64% stake in Sirius, reportedly make an offer for Pandora, it was inevitable that SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer would be asked about that possibility. So how did it deal with it? Let's find out.

CEO Jim Meyer said second-quarter results demonstrated continued strong demand for SiriusXM's content bundle and solid execution by his team. Net income of $173 million in Q2 is up 68% over Q2 2015. For the year, SiriusXM has added 1 million new subs, about 6,000 every day. The company is also raising guidance for the full year.