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Fox Sports Radio has announced plans for its 22nd annual Super Week coverage Beginning February 7 FSR will bring all the excitement before, during and after the Big Game in Los Angeles.

ABC Audio’s Power Portal will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of topical videos and features. ABC Power Portal is an on-demand original video service optimized for radio station websites, apps and social media platforms.

Graham Nash has joined the list of artists removing their music from Spotify. Joe Rogan, who has apologized for COVID comments, has prompted a number of artists, including Neil Young, to remove their solo efforts from the service.

ALT 98.7, is welcoming Los Angeles radio personality Stryker back to the LA airwaves. “ALT Afternoons with Booker and Stryker,” will air weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m.

Audacy has added The Bob & Tom Show to the weekday programming lineup on KFH Radio (KFH-AM/FM) in Wichita, KS. The show, based in Indianapolis, is heard on over 100 stations nationwide.

Christie James is the new morning show host on KOSF-FM, San Francisco. After six years of co-hosting The Martha Quinn Show James gets her own show, Morning Drive with Christie Live.

We reached out to Bill Velez at The Radio Music Licensing Committee on Monday and asked him whether enough radio stations signed the deal with GMR to make it stick. He could not provide an answer other than to say stations were still signing on.

iHeartMedia has announced special guest appearances from Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, Martha Stewart, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Paris Hilton, Shonda Rhimes, Will Ferrell and Wilmer Valderrama during the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The event is virtual due to COVID.

The deal for Chicago Public Media to purchase the Chicago Sun-Times has officially closed. The new organization becomes one of the largest non-profit news organizations in the country, with pledges of $61 million from nearly a dozen philanthropies and donors.

The Independent Broadcasters Association has opened sign-up registration for its fourth bi-annual IBA National Cash Contest. Deadline to register is February 14th. The full contest details will be released on February 15.