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It's called Takin A Walk and the first episode is with retired radio host Wally Brine, formally of The Loren and Wally Morning Show.

At Radio Ink's Forecast 2022 in New York City Tuesday, retiring NAB CEO Gordon Smith was honored with our 2021 Lifetime Leadership Award. The former two-term senator from Oregon became CEO of the National Associations of Broadcasters in November 2009. He’ll be retiring from that position at the end of this year.

Edison Research has released its Top 30 Podcast ranker from its Podcast Consumer Tracker. Crime Junkie moved up from 5th to 3rd while Joe Rogan and The Daily held onto the 1st and 2nd spots respectively. This latest Edison chart is from  Q4 2020 – Q3 2021.

Where is the revenue heading for terrestrial radio? That question was the first to be answered by a Forecast 2022 panel moderated by noted media ecologist Jack Myers, of MediaVillage.

That’s the “burning question” for a group of panelists appearing at Forecast 2022, who were posed with the following scenario: assuming Jessica Rosenworcel is confirmed as the official Chairwoman of the FCC, how will it effect something like multiple ownership?

From social justice initiatives that led General Motors to look within to best reflect the multicultural America of today to a rebuke of “total market” initiatives that swept across the U.S. advertising and marketing world a decade ago, the COVID-19 pandemic “reset everyone’s expectations,” American Urban Radio Networks CEO Chesley Maddox-Dorsey believes.

CNN Audio has debuted a showcast version of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Listeners can now rediscover the CNN Original series in an audio-first format from the first episode beginning in Myanmar to its conclusion in the Lower East Side in New York City.

The National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation has elected Tony Coles of iHeart's Black Information Network, Paul Curran of Cox Media Group and Melody Smalls of Allen Media Group to serve on its Board of Directors.

G Accelerate Networks, the recently launched radio network under the leadership of CEO Jim Higgins, has signed its first ad sales deal. Virtual News Center will become the first client of the newly formed company.

FEMA and KIRO-AM Seattle will unveil a new Emergency Broadcast Studio. The facility, upgraded to continue broadcasting under all conditions, is one of 77 across the United States.