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NBCUniversal is expanding digital inventory and audience targeting capabilities to local marketers across the nation by bringing its recently launched NBC Spot On platform under the NBCUniversal One Platform trading model.

This, the Comcast unit says, is the next way it is scaling its offerings, opening up more of its audiences and assets to even out the playing field for all marketers on a global level.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — He was once the licensee of radio station in Hood River, Ore.

Then, he became nationally known as the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, for which he served as Republican Leader since January 2019.

On Wednesday, Greg Walden, who opted not to seek re-election, delivered his farewell remarks on the House Floor. He’s retiring from more than 30 years of public service — including 22 in Congress.

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ST. LOUIS PARK, MINN. — MPR News has been selected as a host newsroom with Report for America, a national service reporting program.

Report for America places talented emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country to meet an identified gap in local coverage.

MPR News applied to be a Report for America host newsroom with the goal of expanding coverage and building stronger relationships with Minnesota’s growing Latino communities.

The assigned corps member’s work will include extensive travel around the state. The journalist will focus on telling solutions-related stories that offer new perspectives on immigration and highlight people within the Latino community.

“We’re honored to have been selected to host a journalist in this role,” said Mike Mulcahy, interim managing editor of MPR News. “This reporter will help expand our coverage of an important community that has become a major part of Minnesota’s neighborhoods and economy. We’re also looking forward to welcoming a new colleague to MPR News and helping them grow in their career as a journalist.”

The Report for America corps member assigned to MPR News will be announced in April and will begin reporting in June 2021. The application period for the Report for America corps is open now through Jan. 31. The journalist assigned to MPR News will be selected from a pool of highly competitive candidates as part of the national competition.

Minnesota Public Radio is seeking donor support to go towards this project. Report for America encourages local philanthropy to support journalism by matching donations to this project up to $25,000.

Just in time for last minute Christmas shopping, the “Global Radio Guide” from Teak Publishing is available in its new, 15th edition.

Gayle Van Horn’s treasure for the shortwave aficionado “dives into how and where to hear exotic shortwave stations transmitting in the world’s tropical radio bands.”

A release add, “[T]hese stations serve as a window into the culture and daily lives of countries not served by large international broadcast stations. Even in an increasingly connected and digital world, for many of the citizens in these countries, these radio stations serve as the only source of news and information they have at their disposal.”

The guide features 24-hour station/frequency guide with schedules for selected AM band, longwave, and shortwave radio stations; hourly schedules for all language services, frequencies, and world target areas for over 500 stations worldwide; listings of DX radio programs and internet website addresses for many stations, time and frequency stations as well as other odd signals in the shortwave ether.

In addition to contributions of Van Horn, W4GVH, Ken Reitz and Fred Waterer of Spectrum Monitor along with Larry Van Horn add significant content.

The “Global Radio Guide” is available as an ebook for $8.99.

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Megyn Kelly became a household name as a FOX News journalist. Today, she’s the host of the podcast The Megyn Kelly Show.

The well-known journalist, attorney, and best-selling author was just one of the highlights for the concluding day of Radio’s Financial Summit: FORECAST 2021 LIVE, as Kelly participated in an engaging conversation sponsored by Spanish Broadcasting System with Juliet Huddy, co-host of Curtis & Juliet on Red Apple Media’s WABC-AM in New York.

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SiriusXM announced a new automotive partner for its 360L hybrid radio platform.

The company said Maserati has made SiriusXM with 360L a standard feature in its 2021 vehicles in the United States.

“Maserati becomes the first manufacturer to make SiriusXM with 360L a standard feature in its vehicles,” it stated.

Like other hybrid radio systems, the 360L platform combines satellite and streaming content delivery. The company highlights its personalization and on-demand benefits not available in the more familiar one-way satellite service.

SiriusXM has made 360L-related announcements with other carmakers this year including BMW, GM and Audi.

Maserati owners will get a 12-month trial subscription to SiriusXM’s All Access package.

[Related: “Entercom Joins the DTS Connected Radio Ecosystem”]

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Entercom’s Radio.com digital platform is now part of Xperi’s DTS Connected Radio hybrid radio ecosystem.

The announcement gives insight into how Xperi is positioning its system. Senior VP, Radio Joe D’Angelo was quoted: “DTS Connected Radio continues to build on its mission to give today’s car-owners the visually rich, immersive listening experience they expect from the digital dash, while ensuring broadcaster editorial control.”

The platform recently came to market in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and Xperi says more vehicle launches are pending.

For Entercom, the benefits here are “increased engagement, expanded reach and turnkey management and control of content for each of our local broadcasters,” according to VP, Corporate Business Development David Rosenbloom.

[Related: “Hybrid Radio Picks Up Momentum”]

With the hybrid system, Radio.com radio stations will appear with artwork, artist and album information and playlists. The DTS system allows listener personalization and also provides “service following” capability — when a vehicle drives out of broadcast range, it switches in the background to the online version.

The companies said the integration also means economies of scale. Radio.com is home not only to Entercom’s 230 stations but hundreds of affiliates.

With this new relationship, they said in the announcement, “Broadcasters can easily integrate and manage their services, station information, and streams in one place via the RADIO.COM platform integration, all while maintaining control of their content, with all changes reflected in vehicles with DTS Connected Radio.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — What do the father of a former FCC Commissioner and interim Chairman, a current FCC Commissioner, and a now-retired highly esteemed communications law of counsel for Foster Garvey have in common?

All are “champions of digital equality,” and were honored Wednesday for their efforts by the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council.

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Two days ago, Beasley Media Group revealed that its Director of Sales for its cluster stations in New England’s biggest market was rising to the corporate level position of VP/Sales for the entire radio broadcasting company.

On Wednesday, Tina Murley’s successor was revealed.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — She founded the company presently known as Urban One and run by her son, Alfred Liggins III.

On Tuesday, Cathy Hughes was recognized for her 40 years of service to African American media consumers on Capitol Hill.

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