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PodcastOne SportsNet content is teaming up with the Associated Press's worldwide sports coverage to provide reports from national and international sporting events, beginning with Winter Olympics in South Korea. The deal also includes new PodcastOne and AP content, with some premiering as soon as this week.

Tagstation, owner of the NextRadio app, announced on Tuesday that Samsung, the largest Android handset maker in the world, is the latest device to continue its support for NextRadio by unlocking the FM Chip in upcoming smartphone models in the U.S. and Canada.

Canadian Music Week has announced that Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley will be a featured speaker in a session called "A Radio Executive's View From The Corner Office." The session will feature several radio executives and cover the overall positioning of radio today, its future, and how digital fits into the landscape. 

Superadio Networks makes the announcement that The Michael Baisden Show will return to the Atlanta market this week after being dropped by CMG's WALR-FM late last year. Core Communicators Broadcasting is picking up the show for WTBS-FM, which recently reset its format from Old School to a more contemporary adult urban music mix.

This story sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a James Patterson novel. Sixty-eight-year-old James Kauffman has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife, New Jersey radio host April Kauffman. ABC-TV in Philadelphia is reporting that Kauffman paid a hitman to murder his wife to protect an alleged drug ring he ran with the Pagans outlaw motorcycle gang.

The Joe Pags Show adds KPAM in Portland, OR, as its 100th affiliate. The Compass Media Networks show launched August 2015 and now, in less than 30 months, announces 100 stations, including Flagship WOAI San Antonio, KPRC Houston, and KTLK Minneapolis.

The President has renominated Republican Brendan Carr to server a second term on the FCC, which the FCC Commissioner thanked the President for. "Serving on the Commission is a tremendous honor and privilege, and I am proud of the work we have already accomplished. If reconfirmed, I look forward to many more years of working with my colleagues at the FCC."

77 WABC Radio night talk show host John Batchelor has accepted an invitation from the State of Qatar to broadcast from Doha this week, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Broadcast Music, Inc. has named Randall McMillan to the newly created position of VP Business Affairs, Creative & Licensing. Reporting to Mike Steinberg, Executive VP Creative & Licensing, McMillan will be based in BMI’s New York office.

The dominos continue to fall for Steve Bannon after he turned ugly on President Trump. Tuesday, after the media was reporting for days that Breitbart staff wanted Bannon out, it was announced he was stepping down as Executive Chairman, a position he's held since 2012. SiriusXM followed with this statement...