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Detroit’s Oldies 94.7 HD2 will transform into 24/7 Christmas music, beginning at midnight on Thursday, November 1. The first song that will be played on the air will be the holiday classic “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas” by Johnny Mathis.

This month, the American Urban Radio Networks and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce met with representatives from the Hetrick-Martin Institute to present a $10,000 donation for the HMI After-School Youth Center.

According to Triton's July listening ranker, total weekday listening to online audio remains steady at 5.65 million in the U.S. All measured clients within the U.S. reported a total of 5,650,930 Average Active Sessions during the Monday through Friday 6:00am to 8:00pm daypart.

At the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Coordinating Center for Communications and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FCC has deactivated its Disaster Information Reporting System for Hurricane Michael.

Mexican broadcast company Grupo ACIR and iHeartMedia have entered into a partnership that will bring iHeartRadio to listeners across Mexico. iHeartRadio México is available now in beta, with the official launch November 3 at the iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina.

And here's yet another way for consumers to listen to audio. Traffic app Waze has released a beta version of the Waze Audio Player. The player was inspired by feedback from its first audio integration with Spotify in 2017.

Galaxy Media has promoted Carrie J. Wojtaszek to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Wojtaszek, a 10-year veteran of Galaxy, has served as the General Manager of Galaxy Events since 2013.

Listeners in the United Kingdom will be able to utilize the Live365 platform, which is home to thousands of stations. Live365 has removed the sitewide geo-block and streaming is now available to all listeners in the U.K.

After eight years at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Eric Brooks has taken the job of Assistant News Director at Entercom's News Radio KCBS San Francisco. Brooks was Director of News & Programming at WTMJ. The station was recently purchased by Good Karma. Steve Wexler has been hired to run the station. Brooks starts with KCBS on November 12.

At Forecast 2019‘s Prospects for Radio as an Investment in 2019: The Real Street Talk panel, Randy Michaels, who has seen both sides of the investment game, moderates a panel of financial advisors and analysts in a candid discussion of who's investing and where. Wall Street’s opinion affects every player; this is a session no broadcaster can afford to miss.