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At The Crossing Board, Kevin Kinkead wrote about an ESPN poll that asked fans for feedback about politics in sports. Kinkead posted a tweet that included some of the results from the poll including the stat that 74% of fans prefer not to hear about politics on any of its platforms.

CEO James Meyer says there still a few things that need to happen before podcasting reaches a mega audience. During SiriusXM's second quarter earnings call, Meyer referred to podcasting as a flea market.

Total Q2 revenue came in at $2 billion with SiriusXM at $1.5 billion and Pandora clocking in at $441 million.

Cox Media Group Atlanta’s News powerhouse WSB hosted its 19th annual Care-a-Thon this week. The 37-hour event raised over $1.7 million for research and programs at the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, nearly breaking the record set in 2017.

Some of the featured artists for the 2019 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami have been announced, and fans of Latin music are going to be very pleased.

Listeners to the Rush Limbaugh show continue to purchase his $27.00 Betsy Ross T-shirts. Proceeds from the shirts are being donated to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which pays off mortgages of those killed on September 11.

The former Triton Digital co-founder is now the CEO of Digital Audio Venture firm JaxLaw Inc. and President/CEO of independent podcast studio and consultancy, Workhouse Connect. The initial product offering from this new partnership will be called “E-Plus.”

Summer can present challenges for radio news/talk stations. Repurposing staff to cover vacations can be challenging. Add a weekend to the mix and managers have to be creative. That's the situation KGO PD/OPS Manager Lee Hammer found himself in when the tragic events unfolded at the Garlic Festival in Northern California.

This is the third “Broadcasters Meet Podcasters” program at Podcast Movement which is being held in Orlando August 13-16. Here's the lineup for that track.

America's money expert, Dave Ramsey, has moved to brand-new studios in the newly constructed Ramsey Solutions headquarters just outside Nashville. The studio is the focal point of the six-story headquarters.