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Altitude Sports 950 AM will flip to sports betting November 1. The Denver station will carry the full slate of 24/7 sports betting programming from VSiN.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts, is backing the American Music Fairness Act. The AMFA would require radio’s biggest companies to pay royalties for playing music on their stations. Smaller stations would pay a flat fee.

Third quarter earnings season is underway with SiriusXM the first audio company to report. For July, August and September the satellite company reported revenue of $2.2 billion, an increase of 9% over Q3 2020.

At Pandora ad revenue increased 32% to $404 million. The increase was aided by the purchase of Stitcher in Q4 of 2020. Monthly Active Users at Pandora were down, ad-supported listener hours were down and premium subscribers were down.

The Indiana Broadcasters Association held its annual “Spectrum” Awards this week and named WOWO 2021 Station of the Year for Radio Market 1, which includes Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and South Bend. WOWO’s Kayla Blakeslee also won the Best Investigative Reporting award for her Blakeslee at the Border series.

New Country 93.1 WDRQ-FM Detroit is presenting a free concert to help make Christmas a bit brighter for Motor City children. The station will start giving away tickets November 1 for the December 9 New Country Acoustic Christmas concert.

iHeartMedia's ALT 104.5 (WRFF-FM) is raising money for animals and artists with a November concert event. 'Friendsgiving: a Concert For a Cause' will Benefit Morris Animal Refuge and Mural Arts Philadelphia.

In an interview with Amplifi Media CEO Steve Goldstein, Gordon Borrell says podcasting and digital are the future. He says that's where all the advertising money is going - and will continue to go. Radio, Borrell adds, needs to change with the times.

The Green Bay Packers and iHeartMedia announced on Thursday that 97.3 The Game WRNW-FM will become the Milwaukee home for the Packers Radio Network, beginning in the 2022 season. The Packers are moving from WTMJ-AM, a station they've been with in Milwaukee since 1929.

What is it and should the radio industry be paying more attention to it? This is the way media is being purchased these days. Buzz Knight interviews dentsu Media's SVP for Local Investment Martha Matthews about the topic on the latest NAB podcast. LISTEN