The popular podcast crafted a lopsided contract and released an obscure track in an attempt to "explain the music industry."
Growth in self-pay subscribers helped push quarterly revenues higher, offsetting increased content costs.
"It’ll be fun to show how an 80-year-old blues song inspires a jazz artist, that inspires a rockabilly guitar player, who inspires a country artist," Church tells Billboard.
The rapper’s daily radio spins and audience on U.S. terrestrial radio have fallen 21% since Meta and Twitter restricted his social accounts.
The broadcaster says it ousted Lauter after an investigation, but a lawyer for the iHeart employee who filmed the videos says they represent a "hostile work environment" at the company's offices.
Cory Fitzner from Hubbard Radio's "The Country Top 40 With Fitz" is named weekly national broadcast personality of the year.
These 10 radio pros – eight men and two women – take their place in the Radio Hall of Fame immediately.
