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Rock’n Robin Productions and ABC Radio are releasing the first-ever podcast by Robin Roberts. It's called Robin Roberts: Everybody's Got Something, based on her best-selling book of the same name.

It's a 60-page independent evaluation that BIA/Kelsey has put together on CBS Radio as the broadcaster approaches its IPO. The company dug into the local advertising in each of the 26 markets where CBS Radio operates, and offers a valuation of CBS Radio under multiple approaches. Here's what they had to say...

The Radio Show is now underway in Nashville and the two host organizations, the RAB and the NAB have released a list of the sessions that will be streamed live as well as archived on the website www.radioshowweb.com.

CBS Radio and Westwood One have renewed their multi-platform content and distribution agreement, meaning Westwood will continue to distribute CBS Sports Radio, which has 300-plus affiliates and features hosts like Jim Rome and Doug Gottlieb; CBS Radio News; and The Daily Download With Carson Daly.

Tessera Technologies has agreed to buy HD Radio Parent DTS in an all-cash deal valued at around $850 million. The combined company will be headed by Tessera CEO Tom Lacey while DTS Chairman/CEO Jon Kirchner will serve as president. DTS acquired HD Radio developer iBiquity in September of 2015.

102.5 WDVE Rocks’ on-air personalities Randy Baumann, Bill Crawford, Val Porter, Mike Prisuta, Michele Michaels, and Sean McDowell broadcast on-site from the Eat’n Park Atrium at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Thursday, September 15 through Saturday, September 17. In the process, the station helped raise $605,000 for the hospital’s foundation.

On the heels of Pandora's revamped Pandora One $5-per-month streaming product comes this report from The New York Post that iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman plans to launch two new paid options on the iHeartRadio app this week at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, which begins Friday.

Gabe Buch will take over as Producer of the Chris & Nina morning show on the New KMLE @ 107.9, Monday, Oct. 3. The show can be heard weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the Phoenix station.

On November 16, the smartest and most influential minds in broadcast and advertising will gather at the Harvard Club in New York to predict and set in motion radio’s trajectory for 2017. Your budget and revenue will be shaped by the insights and revelations shared by our experts...

One of radio's most familiar names, Kraig Kitchin, will now be consulting radio imaging and production company, The Mix Group.