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The Department of Justice has been reviewing the ASCAP/BMI consent decrees since 2019, which included over 800 public comments and a two-day workshop. Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said on Friday that "continued review of, and stakeholder input concerning, the decrees remains necessary."

(By Mike McVay) There are obvious similarities that are found as a part of the very best morning shows, or those high-profile non-morning shows, that are what everyone searching for a morning show should look for when interviewing and hiring. 

Continuing with our weekly series to show BIA’s Radio Share of Wallet analysis, let’s now look at BIA’s estimates for markets 51 to 60 for 2021. 

ABC News Radio will have extensive live anchored coverage of inauguration events this week. Radio, streaming and podcast platforms will be in use.

Freakonomics Radio has nearly 500 episodes in its archive. The decade worth of episodes will be available, across all platforms, January 17.

Red Apple Group, the parent company of Red Apple Media and 77 WABC Radio, has hired Emily Pankow as Red Apple Media’s General Counsel. Pankow began her legal career at Red Apple Group as an associate.

Analysts at Citi are not impressed with the results, so far, from the hundreds of millions of dollars the company has spent gobbling up podcast companies. Is the Spotify end-game of converting music listeners to podcast listeners even working?

The Country Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2020 will be honored during CRS 2021: The Virtual Experience February 17-20. Individual presentations presented by Curb Records will be featured in the morning and afternoon of each day.

Joe Zarbano, Brand Manager/Program Director at WEEI 93.7 FM, Boston has resigned.  In a memo shared with staff, Zarbano said the time has come for me to pursue new challenges.

ALT 98.7 (WDZH-FM), Detroit, is kicking off a new line-up January 18. The line-up is filled with hosts in the Entercom Alt stable.