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On Wednesday the Toronto Blue Jays announced that dedicated radio broadcasts would begin again this week. Earlier this year, the Jays replaced their radio broadcasts with the TV simulcast due to COVID.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the auction sale of Bob Romanik's four St. Louis radio stations began this week. So far there are no bids. Romanik, who called himself the Grim Reaper of Radio, had his 4 AM licenses taken away by the FCC in 2020.

University of North Carolina Football and Men's Basketball have a new radio home in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle. The Tar Heels have entered a new flagship relationship with Curtis Media Group and ,i>WPTF 98.5 FM/680 AM.

On Tuesday, SiriusXM reported first quarter revenue came in at $2.06 billion, an increase of 5% compared Q1 2020. The company recorded net income of $219 million in the first quarter of 2021, compared to $293 million in the prior year period and 126,000 self-pay net subscribers were added, an increase of 83% over last year.

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(By Ed Ryan) The about-face Conservative talker Phil Valentine has made on the COVID-19 vaccine has a lot of our readers questioning the role talk radio has been playing - some say preventing - in rolling the vaccine out.

95.5 WSB (WSB-AM/WSBB-FM), Atlanta, will host the 21st annual 95.5 WSB Care-a-Thon. The event benefits the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

97.9 The Box's Good Morning H-Town has been honored as the Best Radio Morning Show in Houston. The recognition comes from the Houston Chronicle readers poll.

Townsquare Media’s New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM) is presenting the latest in a series of Town Hall broadcasts on how New Jersey is fairing in a post pandemic culture. The broadcast will focus on how businesses and workers are coping in the new normal labor market.

The Radio Television Digital News Association 2021 News Leadership Conference will focus on helping attendees grow into stronger leaders both within and outside of the newsroom. The conference will take place in-person in Denver, CO Sept. 23-24, 2021.