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The Academy of Radio Arts and Sciences of America has announced that KDKA News Radio in Pittsburgh is the recipient of the 2023 World Radio Day Award.

Conservative commentator Rich Valdés will now be syndicated by Cumulus' Westwood One in the 10PM to 1AM time slot. He's also getting a new podcast.

Cumulus Media's Dallas radio cluster raised $2.3 million for DFW Metroplex charities during 2022, $500,000 more than 2021. In Dallas, Cumulus owns six stations: KPLX-FM, WBAP-AM, KTCK-FM, KLIF-FM, KSCS-FM and KLIF-AM.

The Mellon Foundation has awarded Boston-based WGBH Educational Foundation with a $16 million grant to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. The program is a collaboration with the Library of Congress to digitize, preserve and make accessible historic and significant public radio and television broadcasts.

The Motor Racing Network is adding new radio stations ahead of a major motorsport event next month. The new stations joining the Motor Racing Network include WLS (890 AM) in Chicago, KLAA (830 AM) in Los Angeles, WNSP (105.5 FM) in Mobile and WNTA (1330 AM) in Rockford.

TM Studios announced on Wednesday that sales veteran Steve Kaufman has been hired to work in affiliate sales. Kaufman will work alongside Chris Stevens and pitch the TM product catalogue to stations across North America.

Now! Media and Sheri Lynch have partnered on a new podcast that explores "deeply weird, quirky, odd, unexpected, peculiar and mysterious" stories. The new podcast, called True Weird Stuff, debuts on Friday the 13th (not a coincidence).

Hubbard Radio has rebranded its secondary HD signal on KNUC (98.9 FM) in Seattle to Tulalip Sportsbook Radio. KNUC-HD2 is the first sportsbook-branded radio station in the country. Programming will be provided by VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.

Edison Research has released its top podcasting genres for Q3 of 2022. The comedy category was king again amongst weekly podcast listeners

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