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'Roundball Rock', the iconic score composed by John Tesh, is being used again by NBC at the Tokyo Games. The nearly 30 year old theme is being used for men's and women's basketball games on Olympic broadcasts.

iHeartMedia and the National Basketball Association have signed a multi-year podcast partnership. The agreement will feature the launch of more than 20 new iHeartRadio-NBA co-produced podcasts.

Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, owner and operator of 91.3 WYEP-FM and 90.5 WESA-FM, has named Jason Price Director of Technology. Additionally, Tom Hurley has been promoted to Engineer.

Nashville Public Radio flagship station WPLN, has hired Blaise Gainey as the new Political Reporter. Gainey is moving to Middle Tennessee from WFSU in Tallahassee.

American Public Media has created a four-part podcast series on the the struggle schools are having finding qualified teachers. The series takes a deep dive into research and how it translates into policy.

University of North Carolina Football and Men's Basketball have a new radio home in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle. The Tar Heels have entered a new flagship relationship with Curtis Media Group and ,i>WPTF 98.5 FM/680 AM.

On Tuesday, SiriusXM reported first quarter revenue came in at $2.06 billion, an increase of 5% compared Q1 2020. The company recorded net income of $219 million in the first quarter of 2021, compared to $293 million in the prior year period and 126,000 self-pay net subscribers were added, an increase of 83% over last year.

After a national serarch, KUNM Radio, at the University of New Mexico, has selected Megan Kamerick to be the station’s next News Director. Kamerick began as a volunteer at KUNM in 2005 on Women’s Focus and joined the staff in 2015.

Here's how Terry Crosby described our three-day podcasting conference last week: "Illuminating." From Adam Curry's value-for-value model to Drew Lane's radio sales model to the hosts of True Crime Obsessed, who have 50,000 Patreon Subscribers....they are all making piles of money. There's still time to find out how. Purchase the replay HERE.

(By Ed Ryan) The about-face Conservative talker Phil Valentine has made on the COVID-19 vaccine has a lot of our readers questioning the role talk radio has been playing - some say preventing - in rolling the vaccine out.