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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.

Isabel Lara is NPR's first Chief Communications Officer. She has been serving as the Executive Director of Media Relations. Lara has served as NPR's spokesperson since 2014.

WITZ-FMin Jasper, Indiana will be saying good-bye to High School sports broadcaster Walt Ferber. He will retire at the end of the upcoming school year.

95.5 WSB (WSB-AM/WSBB-FM), Atlanta, will host the 21st annual 95.5 WSB Care-a-Thon. The event benefits the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

97.9 The Box's Good Morning H-Town has been honored as the Best Radio Morning Show in Houston. The recognition comes from the Houston Chronicle readers poll.