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Jim Meyer has announced his plan to retire as CEO of SiriusXM on December 31. Jennifer Witz, President, Sales, Marketing and Operations, will become the new Chief Executive Officer.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina will celebrate the best in Latin culture and music during Hispanic Heritage Month in October. A virtual music festival and iHeartRadio Corazon Latino Award presentation will be featured.

Triton Digital is now offering advertisers targeted distribution using Tru Optik's Political Data Cloud. Advertisers can now purchase digital audio inventory on an audience-addressable basis according to political interests and behaviors.

Jim Richmond has been hired as the Bonneville Seattle media cluster’s Director of Sales. He takes over for Cathy Cangiano who has been promoted to SVP Market Manager in the cluster.

Country radio personality Shawn Parr, host of nationally syndicated Shawn Parr’s Across the Country, is set to host a 10 week free virtual concert series. Taking the Highways Across America is sponsored by Camping World.

Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs quit her 23-year job Monday after accusing management at the public radio station of covering for a DJ at sister station 89.3 the Current who has been the target of sexual misconduct allegations.

As we reported Monday, KPCC journalist Josie Huang was arrested on Saturday following a protest she says she was covering in the Los Angeles area. She posted to Twitter that she was tackled, held down, handcuffed and arrested by officers.

Following last weeks announcement that the company would be taking a national approach to the Country and Alternative formats, Entercom has made public the teams that will execute that new plan. Tim Roberts will lead the Country format and Mike Kaplan will head the Alternative brand.

On Tuesday, September 29th, the Salem Radio Network will present live coverage of the first 2020 Presidential Debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which is being moderated by Chris Wallace of FOX News Channel.

As radio's top national advertiser according to Media Monitors. The learning language site aired 47,571 commercials on radio stations across the country to push The Home Depot to number two (44,761).