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BMW drivers can create personalized Pandora Stations in the car, on models equipped with next gen SiriusXM with 360L radios. The Pandora Stations feature on SiriusXM with 360L radios is one of the technology enhancements that have been rolled out to BMW customers with properly equipped 2021 models.

iHeartRadio has joined forces with Waze, the carpooling app. iHeartRadio now syncs with Waze, offering both audio streaming and directions without having to leave the app.

Emmis Communications has signed an agreement to form a new public company, Mediaco Holding, with New York investment firm Standard General. Mediaco Holding will purchase WBLS-FM and WQHT-FM (HOT 97) in New York for $96 million.

Jim Murphy, host of Murphy in the Morning on Midwest Communications' WIXX in Green Bay, has announced his retirement after 32 years. Murphy began his tenure at WIXX in September 1991, returning to his hometown after a stint at WLMG in New Orleans.

Vince Richards is the new Brand Manager for JACK FM (KJKK-FM) in Dallas. He heads to Texas from Sacramento where he's been Operations Manager since 2018. Richards has been with Entercom since 1996.

As election season heats up, Crossover Media Group Sales, a new cross-platform content-production and advertising-sales rep firm has added four new political Talk programs to its roster.

Inside JAWS is a tale of a modest thriller that became an ordeal and then a disaster and then a phenomenon and then a classic. Steven Spielberg, a fresh-faced, inexperienced director nearly wrecked his promising career, but became the most important filmmaker of our era. On Tuesday, day one of the series’ release, Inside JAWS hit the Apple Podcast chart at #2.

According to the Chicago Tribune, former Chicago radio host Roma Wade recently sold her 2,200-square-foot Chicago condo for $770,000. Along with her late husband Don, the condo on Lake Shore Drive was purchased back in 1995 for $265,000. The couple worked at WLS together from 1986 to 2012. Don died of brain cancer in 2013 at the age of 72. Wade now lives in Florida.

iHeartMedia has signed a new five-year agreement with Charlamagne Tha God, co-host of the nationally syndicated show The Breakfast Club, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month.

It's a theme we're getting used to hearing from public radio companies. A banner political year (2016) is hard to match in an off-political year (2017). Net revenue for Urban One's radio division in Q4 of 2017 was off 7.5%, excluding political revenue was flat for the quarter.