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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to launch a podcast in 2020. She says her long interview with Howard Stern was one of the reasons she's launching. iHeartRadio will be a major distributor of the show. Get all the details at The Podcast Business Journal.

Lakeia Brown is now the Senior Producer of Race & Culture for ABC's Audio Insights. It's a newly created position for Brown who moves over from ABC News Research where her primary role was spearheading and forecasting sales estimates for all ABC News programs.

Rex Long has been named Program Director for iHeartMedia's KHFI-FM in Austin. Long moves to Austin from Salt Lake City where he worked for the iHeart cluster.

Scotty Kay has been named midday show host for NOW 96.3 (KNOU-FM) in St. Louis. Hosting Scotty Kay in the Midday will be added to his role as morning show co-host for sister station US99 (WUSN-FM) in Chicago.

The iHeart CEO was asked a question about localism during the Thursday night earnings call. Pittman frequently talks about radio as the listener's companion. An analyst asked if companionship meant being local, and did iHeart's emphasis on technology get away from being local, harming audience levels. 

Broadcast revenue declined 2.7%, network revenue was up 2.2%, and digital revenue, including podcasting, was up 33.6% for iHeart in the quarter. Excluding political revenue, overall revenue grew 4.3% compared to Q4 2018.

On March 25-26, Hispanic radio broadcasters, along with experts from everything from political revenue to podcasting, will gather in Miami for the 11th Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference.

It would be interesting to see national Entercom numbers for this category. On Thursday, ESPN Audio circulated a press release that stated its network accounted for 54% of all sports listening.

Entercom is making some changes to management in its Los Angeles Cluster. Two SVPs, along with several Brand Managers, are part of the changes announced Thursday.

The Daily Bible, a new Bible devotional podcast, will debut this Sunday, March 1. The Daily Bible presents daily readings of the King James Bible, in digestible single-passage segments, over the course of one year.