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VSiN, The Sports Betting Network and sports betting platform BetMGM, are partnering for a new show. Betting Across America will offer sports betting data and detailed analytics.

Bill Smee is the first VP News for Entercom. Smee will oversee all the local news brands, including eight all news and 18 news talk radio stations in 23 markets across the country, and nationwide via the Radio.com platform.

Edgar 'Shoboy' Sotelo and his crew are now on stations in the Rio Grande Valley, Sacramento and Stockton-Modesto markets. The Shoboy Showlaunch also marks an exclusive network sales agreement with Entravision Communications Corporation.

WODE-FM/99.9 The Hawk has a new PD and afternoon drive host. Sal Palazzolo takes over as PD and Glenn 'Mitch' Mitchell moves from weekends to weekday afternoons.

WQHT-FM Hot 97 New York morning show Ebro In the Morning with Laura Stylez and Rosenberg has reached a syndication agreement with Superadio Networks. The week of September 7 is set for the syndication launch.

The rates radio pays to SESAC for use of works from the SESAC library will not change. The rates for music stations remains 0.2557% of net revenue and the rates for talk stations stays at 0.0575% of revenue. The agreement was reached in arbitration.

For the first time in California’s history, public radio stations up and down the state are uniting for one day of support. August 27 is California Public Radio Day.

Media Monitors says The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was the number one national radio advertiser last week with it's 50,249 commercials on radio stations across America.

(By Buzz Knight) We’ve reached the back of this illustrious year of chaos and it’s worth hitting the pause button for a second to deal with everyone’s favorite topic: Data and Metrics. OK it’s not everyone’s favorite topic but it’s a necessity in this day and age.

Midwest Communications, Princeton Broadcasting, Fleur De Lis Broadcasting, Lafayette Broadcasting and Mitchell Community Broadcasting all had their license renewal applications suspended for failing to certify their public files were compliant with FCC rules as it relates to requests for political advertising.