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Rich Meyer, Mediabase and Airplay Intel founder/CEO has signed on to do a weekly feature for Party Liveline. The feature will highlight the five fastest rising new songs.

SXM Media, the combined advertising sales organization for SiriusXM, Pandora and Stitcher; has put together a panel discussion for the event. The panel will be made up of experts in programmatic space.

SoundExchange has promoted two on its legal team. The company also announced its Chief Legal Counsel will be stepping down at the end of the year.

SportsRadio 94WIP Philadelphia is remembering 'Big Daddy Graham'. Born Edward Gudonis he spent more than 20 years hosting his daily program.

Brian Pollina is the new Director of Network Sales for G Networks. Pollina most recently was VP Digital Assets and Midwest Sales for United Stations Radio Network.

Jason Murphy has joined Adams Radio in Tallahassee as the new Program Director of Hot 104.9 (WHTF-FM). Murphy will also hold down the 2-6 PM slot when he starts September 15.

iHeartMedia NYC, Charlamagne Tha God in partnership with the Mental Wealth Alliance are planning a Mental Wealth Expo. The free and open to the public event is set for World Mental Health Day October 10.

On Wednesday we reported that 9 former FCC Chair's are in favor of Congressional legislation reinstating a tax certificate program to encourage investment in station ownership for women and people of color. One FCC Chair not in favor of that idea is Mark Fowler. Here's what he had to say...

The company that collects and distributes digital performance royalties to over 250,000 artists and master rights owners reported Wednesday that $241.6 million was distributed in Q2 this year. That's down just under 1% from Q2 a year ago and down from $245.4 million in Q1 of this year.

It was a record 12 months of revenue collection for BMI. During its most recent fiscal year (July 2020 to June 2021) over $1.3 billion was distributed to songwriters, composers and publishers. $105 million of that revenue came from the radio industry.