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New York (AFP) - Audio streaming platform Spotify announced Friday it has renewed its partnership with Joe Rogan for his flagship chart-topping podcast. Sweden-based Spotify did not provide financial terms of the deal, but said a Wall Street Journal report that the agreement was worth as much as $250 million was "incorrect." It described the agreement as a ""multi-year partnership." Rogan signed his first exclusive contract with Spotify in May 2020, which the Journal valued at around $200 million. "The Joe Rogan Experience" topped the list of the world's most listened-to podcasts on Spotify in...
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Ashland (United States) (AFP) - With Pixie the Chihuahua curled nearby and studio walls covered in mementos, Jeff Katz leans into the radio microphone and delivers a rather less cozy message to his conservative audience: Joe Biden and Democrats are corrupt villains destroying America. "I don't like him," Katz tells his Newsradio WRVA audience from his home studio in central Virginia, referring to the 80-year-old president. "I think he brought a gang of grifters to the White House.... He's a bad guy." Katz is a veteran foot soldier in an airwaves army saturating talk radio with thousands of usu...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Mazda drivers in one part of the United States have found themselves stuck listening to public radio after their car's entertainment system got jammed on one frequency. Dozens of owners of the vehicles in the Seattle area are unable to change the channel from 94.9 FM, while others are doomed to watch their multimedia screens endlessly -- and fruitlessly -- reboot. The bug only affects drivers of cars made between 2014 and 2017, who happened to drop in on KUOW, the local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, the Seattle Times reported. "My infotainment unit has been perpetu...
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New York (AFP) - Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are releasing a book in October based on conversations from their podcast, the publisher Random House said Thursday. Like the podcast of the same name, "Renegades: Born in the USA," out worldwide on October 26, will see the pair ruminate on the state of America and their "enduring love" for it, "with all its challenges and contractions." The podcast released this year has seen the duo wax poetic on themes including racism, music and masculinity. The book will also feature handwritten lyrics from rocker Springsteen along with annotated speeche...
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New York (AFP) - Streaming giant Spotify on Monday unveiled a new show featuring two American cultural heavyweights: rock star Bruce Springsteen and former US president Barack Obama. Two episodes of the eight-show audio series "Renegades: Born in the USA" are now available online. It's a marketing coup for Spotify, which has focused on podcasting as a growth driver since 2019, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into acquisitions. "On the surface, Bruce and I don't have a lot in common," Obama says in a promotional clip for the series. "He's a white guy from a small town in Jersey. I'm a B...
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Washington (AFP) - Rush Limbaugh, the firebrand radio host and relentless provocateur with a finger on the pulse of America's conservative middle class, has died after battling lung cancer. He was 70. The death of the hugely influential broadcaster, who announced he was sick in 2020, drew an outpouring of tributes from right wing figures led by former president Donald Trump. "He was a conversationalist, a brilliant guy," said Trump, who phoned into Fox News. "Totally brilliant. He was unique... he was a great man." Over a career spanning half a century, Limbaugh cultivated a reputation among h...
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Washington (AFP) - Rush Limbaugh, the firebrand right-wing radio host and a founding father of America's conservative talk show landscape, has died at age 70, his family said Wednesday. The controversial and influential broadcaster -- seen as a kingmaker among Republican politicians -- had announced in February 2020 he was fighting advanced lung cancer, but vowed to continue with "The Rush Limbaugh Show" as he underwent treatment. "We, the Limbaugh family, are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved Rush has died," read a family statement, signed by wife Kathryn Adams Limbaugh. Limbaugh ...
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New York (AFP) - Streaming giant Spotify is extending its foray into audiobooks, dropping nine new public-domain classics narrated by celebrities including Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker. The platform known best for its music has used podcasts to drive growth since 2019, and recently began bolstering its audiobook selection. A Spotify spokesperson told AFP the launch is part of "tests in an effort to improve our user experience." "Some of those tests end up paving the path for our broader user experience and others serve only as an important learning," the spokesperson for the Swedish compan...
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New York (AFP) - A Catholic priest's podcast about the Bible was topping downloads Thursday in the United States, filling a niche for the faithful as the pandemic restricts in-person mass. The voice of "The Bible in a Year" -- which has been downloaded over four million times in a matter of weeks -- is charismatic priest Mike Schmitz. The podcast, which is to include 365 daily episodes, features him reading and discussing the Good Book. "The Bible in a Year" topped US downloads within 48 hours of going live January 1, according to a spokeswoman for Ascension, the Catholic publishing and educa...
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