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DGital Media is partnering with Fortune to launch Fortune Unfiltered, which will feature CEOs, thought leaders, executives, and other influencers in business today. The first podcast launched Monday.

It's a national ad sales agreement for the Completely Unnecessary podcast which has over 30,000 downloads per episode and 200,000 YouTube subscribers. The show covers pop culture topics such as games, movies, and comics. It's hosted by writer and gamer punk Pat Contri, along with fellow gamer, Ian Ferguson. The show is produced every other week.

The Home Depot and GEICO held onto their top spots, 1st and 2nd respectively, in the weekly Media Monitors chart. Walgreens moved up from 10th to 3rd by airing 28,439 commercials last week.

His new title is Partner Integration Specialist and he’ll report to Sr. VP/Operations Todd Thomas. Marsh has experience as a Market Manager, Operations Manager, and PD. At Futuri, he'll work with stations to develop strategies for audience and revenue growth.

In our continued coverage of how radio is covering the two political conventions, today we check in with our friends at Westwood One. In Cleveland, the Westwood team included correspondents Bob Costantini, Jim Roope, Alan Scaia, and Karin Caifa. Chas Henry anchored longform coverage and Michael Toscano anchored evening short form special reports.

(By Jeff McHugh) Benchmarks are an essential component for a successful radio show or podcast. Packaged features like “Carpool Karaoke” on The Late Show with James Cordon or “Can’t Beat Kelly” on Fresh FM’s The Tommy Show in Washington, D.C., get listeners familiar with content and characters fast.

(By Loyd Ford) With all the politics and violence that is occupying social media, don’t you think people are looking for fun and entertainment? Of course they are! How will you respond? By taking advantage of this opportunity. You’re in radio!

NPR Digital Services will start using Triton Digital for streaming later this year. Stations were informed of the change last week, according to The Current. NPR uses Limelight to stream and began using Triton for podcast advertising earlier this year.

(By Ronald Robinson) “People tend to get accustomed to their circumstances.” This was a general observation provided by my H/R trainer. He added, “Even when some situations become extremely uncomfortable or even intolerable, we are likely to accept those, as well.” Radio is in one of those very states – and radio tolerates it. Radio also does so without much internal awareness, grumbling, or angst.