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UK-based independent podcast producer Novel has hired Julie Shapiro as the new Creative Director. She joins Novel from Radiotopia where she was Executive Producer.

Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal Chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships; and Laura Correnti Giant Spoon Partner Laura Correnti are hosting a new podcast, "Sunday Supper". The pair will have candid conversations with icons and influencers talking about the moments they broke from tradition and blazed a trail for themselves.

PodcastOne has expanded with a slate of 14 new and recently acquired podcasts. The programs span across multiple top podcasting genres, including Society and Culture, Self-Help and Motivation, True Crime, Technology and Fitness

Fourth of July Fun Facts are 60-second features from G Audio Networks. The Ashley & Brad Show offering is 12 free one-minute vignettes that give listeners different trivia facts about the 4th of July.

That’s what the NAB CEO told attendees at The Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference Wednesday. LeGeyt was the keynote speaker to start the show. He not only said the NAB is winning the performance royalty fight against Joe Crowley’s musicFIRST, he said the NAB is winning decisively.

The 2022 Medallas De Cortez Winners were announced at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference  last week in Miami. In case you missed who those winenrs were, here they are again.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation presented the 47th Annual Gracie Awards Luncheon in New York City yesterday. The Gracie Awards were presented to honorees which were previously announced in recognition of individual achievement and outstanding programming by, for and about women in local and student television, radio and digital media.

Sam Dick is now reporting for WEKU-FM. The return to radio comes after Dick retired from his WKYT in November after a long career anchoring at the Lexington CBS affiliate. WEKU is headquartered at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.

"How To Make Real Money Podcasting" is set for July 19-20. The second annual virtual seminar has added rock journalist, broadcast personality and music executive Matt Pinfield to the line-up.

Bushland Radio Specialties/WCFW is selling WCFW-FM and translator 99.1 W256AE-FM to Magnum Media. Both signals are licensed to Chippewa Falls – Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The sale price was $600K.