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Brazil sports broadcaster FOX Sports Brasil, has selected an on-premise deployment version of the Veritone aiWARE platform to cognitively enrich and index both archived content and live streams. In Brazil the media and entertainment market is projected to reach $43.7 billion by 2021.

The multi-year deal will see AudioHQ become the exclusive re-seller – in the United States – of the streaming service’s audio advertising inventory. TuneIn serves more than 75 million active monthly users.

Have you ever wondered how people managed to insult each other before Twitter came along? Here's another example of how two adult public figures seem to revert back to their childhood name-calling days. This vulgar Twitter fight was between iHeartMedia San Antonio Sports talker Mike Taylor (pictured) and singer Richard Marx.

It appears things are starting to change even before the Entercom/CBS deal closes. Steve DiNardo, who was the Vice-President/Market Manager for the Entercom San Francisco cluster, is no longer with the company. At the time of his promotion in February of 2014, the company said, “After a nationwide search, the best choice was right in front of us."

On Wednesday, an appeals court in San Antonio agreed with a lower court ruling that an intercompany stock transfer was allowed under the terms iHeartMedia's loan agreements. Creditors were disputing whether the 2015 transfer was legal and may have even triggered a default. An iHeartmedia spokesperson told Radio Ink the company was pleased with the decision.

(By Wayne Ens) You've probably heard that “figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure.” Whenever I'm reviewing figures or “research,” I always look first at the source. With all due respect, research from any source has its built-in biases.

It should come as no surprise that when severe weather hits, the locals turn to radio to get their information. Well, perhaps that's a surprise to Tim Cook and Apple. According to Nielsen, the recent extreme weather that battered Texas and Florida provided a spike in listening for News/Talk stations. Nielsen said the spike occurred during the September PPM survey (August 17-September 13).

The Radio Advertising Bureau is partnering with Assessments 24x7, a company led by CEO Dr. Tony Alessandra (pictured). As a result of this collaboration the RAB will be offering its members access to the Executive Summary Sales assessment bundle, which provides managers with three hiring assessments: The DISC profile, The Motivators, and the Hartman Value Profile.

iHeartMedia Philadelphia and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children, have announced the launch Breakthrough Radio on iHeartRadio. Dedicated to kids and their families, Breakthrough Radio will promote a healthy lifestyle.

WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, has installed a new antenna, which it says will expand its radio reach by 400,000 listeners across eastern and central Mass. The station increased the height of its antenna by 175 feet – the equivalent of almost 16 stories – by relocating its primary 90.9 FM antenna from a tower in Newton, to a taller tower in the neighboring town of Needham.