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The Tom Joyner Foundation is joining the podcasting boom and has launched HBCUbiquity, an hour of interviews, discussion, and analysis about historically black colleges and universities. The show is hosted by Tom Joyner Jr.

Podcasting hosting company Libsyn is teaming up with Entercom to distribute Libsyn podcasts on Radio.com. Through the agreement, Radio.com users will now have direct access to the 62,000 active podcasts, totaling over 4.9 million episodes, hosted on Libsyn.

Our friends at the RAB have a reminder for anyone interested in applying for a Rising Through the Ranks scholarship. All entries must be in by 5 p.m. CST on June 5. Scholarship recipients will be notified of their selection by Wednesday, June 25. APPLY HERE.

Classic rock, craft beer…what more could you ask for? 97.1 The River (WSRV-FM/Atlanta) has partnered with Reformation Brewery to create a limited-edition beer for the summer.

The Dayton, Ohio, area continues to clean up in the aftermath of Memorial Day tornadoes that for some brought back memories of the deadly 1974 tornado outbreak that devastated Xenia, about 15 miles away.

Morning program The Ace & TJ Show can now be heard on 100.3 KISS FM in Greensboro, NC. The show is co-hosted by Riggins, Sass, and Tech D Rob and is known for its funny, real, and community-focused rapport.

FOX Sports Radio and multimedia personality Clay Travis have launched a new iHeartRadio Original Podcast, Wins & Losses with Clay Travis.

One of our most popular issues starts mailing today. Radio Ink's Most Influential Women in Radio list includes 35 pages of radio's most successful women, why they love radio, their advice for anyone interested in becoming a success in this business, and their thoughts on whether the workplace environment has improved over the past year.

Kristen McQueary is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She writes about state and local politics and says she depends on local radio in Chicago. She listens to and from work, she streams radio at her home and she listens on podcasts to catch up on what she might have missed.

(By Charlie Sislen) My past several posts have focused on how to document for a potential advertiser the fact that their target customers may not be watching broadcast TV.