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Premiere Networks and Hollywood Unlocked Founder Jason Lee will debut a new two-hour weekly radio show called Hollywood Unlocked with Jason Lee on August 17. The show will come out of the gate on 50 iHeart Urban Contemporary stations.

Ed Hammond started his radio career in 1974 at Gospel/Christian station WPEO in Peoria. He'll end his career this week at WMBD, also in Peoria, where he's been since 2000, covering local news, doing play-by-play sports, and as the News Director for the past five years.

At The Crossing Board, Kevin Kinkead wrote about an ESPN poll that asked fans for feedback about politics in sports. Kinkead posted a tweet that included some of the results from the poll including the stat that 74% of fans prefer not to hear about politics on any of its platforms.

Russ Parr is host of a new morning show on Radio One Philadelphia station Classix 107.9 FM. The Russ Parr Morning Show premiered on Monday, July 29. Parr is a well-known figure in media and television but also a noted voice on black music and culture.

After 12 years Erin Branham is leaving The Jack & Erin Afternoon Show to become Director, Marketing & Promotions for non-profit Brighter Media's SHINE-FM.

CEO James Meyer says there still a few things that need to happen before podcasting reaches a mega audience. During SiriusXM's second quarter earnings call, Meyer referred to podcasting as a flea market.

Total Q2 revenue came in at $2 billion with SiriusXM at $1.5 billion and Pandora clocking in at $441 million.

Cox Media Group Atlanta’s News powerhouse WSB hosted its 19th annual Care-a-Thon this week. The 37-hour event raised over $1.7 million for research and programs at the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, nearly breaking the record set in 2017.

Some of the featured artists for the 2019 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami have been announced, and fans of Latin music are going to be very pleased.

Listeners to the Rush Limbaugh show continue to purchase his $27.00 Betsy Ross T-shirts. Proceeds from the shirts are being donated to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which pays off mortgages of those killed on September 11.