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Podcast hosting platform Podbean has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants standards for SOC for Service Organizations, demonstrating the company's ability to protect customer data.

Cumulus Media is launching the fourth installment of its new multi-week audio series, Your Music First, featuring Thirty Seconds To Mars’ new single, “Stuck." The series will air over the next four weeks across Cumulus’ Mainstream Rock and Alternative stations nationwide.

Apple TV+ has released the first episode of a new companion podcast to their series Prehistoric Planet ahead of the May 22 season 2. Prehistoric Planet: The Official Podcast will feature interviews with executive producer Jon Favreau and other special guests.

Boston-based conservative talk radio host Howie Carr is in the hospital after collapsing on air during an interview on Monday. Carr started his syndicated show out of iHeart's WRKO by saying he was not feeling well due to a medical procedure and later became incoherent and slumped over mid-sentence.

Cumulus Media is renewing and expanding its coverage of Providence College Athletics. The multi-year agreement with Learfield's Providence Friars Sports Properties allows Cumulus Providence to continue Friar men's basketball games, as well as coverage of a new sport on WPRV-AM.

Family-hosted entertainment and pop culture video podcast, The Brooker Family POPcast, is launching Season 2 on May 24. The show features journalist, actor, and comedian Heather Brooker, her husband Chris, and their 10-year-old daughter, Channing.

After more than two years away, Rob Kirkpatrick is rejoining Townsquare Media in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kirkpatrick will step into afternoons at adult contemporary 99.9 KTDY, and will host the 5 O'Clock Traffic Jam.

Newton Minow, the former chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission who championed the start of satellite networks, passed away on May 6 at the age of 97. Minow was an early and powerful proponent of communication satellites.

As of May 8, Ronnie Glover is Beasley Media Group's VP and Market Manager for Fayetteville, NC. Glover comes to Beasley from Alpha Media's Bethany/Cameron, Missouri branch, where he was Market Manager of KAAN-FM/AM, KKWK-FM, and KMRN-AM.

A softer first week of May saw an eleven percent decrease in spot play between radio's top five national advertisers, according to the latest data from Media Monitors for the week ending May 7. The week's data shows minimal leader change heading into summer.