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After getting the plug pulled by billionaire owner Joe Rickets back in November, a consortium of Public Radio stations — WNYC in New York, WAMU in Washington DC, and KPCC in Southern California — have acquired the rights and archives of Gothamist, as well as LAist, DCist and DNAInfo…

This WFMU billboard is actually up along Route 280 in Newark, NJ.

Not only did Eventbrite buy Ticketfly from Pandora, SiriusXM has bought a $480 million stake in Pandora. This gives Sirius XM around 16% ownership of Pandora…

Liberty Media-backed SiriusXM is once again in talks to buy Pandora, according to sources at various media outlets

Fox News says: “Let’s be honest – would you rather listen to Rush [Limbaugh] and Sean [Hannity] or a gaggle of man-hating feminists in Birkenstocks warbling about the virtues of organic gardening.”

The Opry City Stage hopes to open in Times Square in 2017.

Apple Music, the new streaming-radio-social-etc platform from the iTunes/iPod/iPad/Macbook folks, launched Tuesday (6/30) on IOS devices, and today (7/1) it was included with the brand new version of iTunes…

The first of two Coachella 2015 weekends is this weekend, and if you can’t be there, SiriusXM will have subscribers covered with at least some of the sounds…

Startalk Live! with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman is coming to the Apollo Theatre on May 28. Tickets are currently on StarTalk presale (password = COSMIC), there’s an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (4/1) at noon, an Apollo presale starting Thursday (4/2) at noon and tix go on sale to the general public on Friday (4/3) at noon…

RadioLoveFest returns for a second year at BAM from May 5 – 10, reimagining some of your favorite radio programs as a live show. This year’s highlights include science show Radiolab Live (5/5), “An Evening with Terry Gross” (5/6), “Don’t Look Back: Stories from the Teenage Years” (5/6) which is hosted, quiz show “Wait Wait…