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Universal Music is introducing a line of Music-Based Experiential’ Hotels — potentially competing with music venues. 

According to digital music news The establishments will reflect local culture, history, and music, “promoting positive social change, education and innovation” through their guest experiences and operations. They will open in Atlanta , Biloxi, and Orlando, with more locations “to come.”

The hotels could host universal music artists like Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Billie Eilish. The locations could lead the label profiting off of all in one concert and accommodation passes for concerts

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Rush Limbaugh is battling stage 4 lung cancer. The 69-year-old was diagnosed with lung cancer in February. He told his listeners that he's had a setback.

Limbaugh said his doctors changed his medications in "hopes of keeping additional progression at bay for as long as possible." Prior to this week's update, he said that cancer "had been reduced, and it had become manageable."

Limbaugh has been hosting "The Rush Limbaugh Show" in national syndication for more than 30 years. CNN says Limbaugh renewed his contact with the syndication company Premiere Radio Networks in January.

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The XFL will be back in 2021...That’s what the Rock says. The Rock and other investors bought the league from Vince McMahon after the football league went into bankruptcy earlier this year.  They paid $15 million for it.

ESPN and ABC televised the league that collapsed after just five games. It was a combination of bad timing: Covid-19 stopped all sports in the spring and poor management.

Many former coaches and league employees are listed as creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings most prominently Oliver Luck who ran the league. He’s suing McMahon for wrongful termination. Luck is asking for nearly $24 million.

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The long-running show  was canceled in the US by Paramount Network in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

But the thirty one year old show remains a hit world wide. So Cops crews started filming again in September. This time in Spokane Washington and they are expected to continue into November.

Cops premiered on Fox in 1989 where it aired for 25 seasons. The show was resurrected in 2013 by Spike TV which became the paramount network.

 

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An NBC owned station in the bay area wants residents to binge watch local investigative news.

Its first series is called Derailed and its in its second season. The show focuses on Bay Area transit data, policing, and finances and how it impacts that community.

The Cronkite school of journalism blog says episodes are between 4 and 15 minutes long and stream on NBCBayArea.com, YouTube, and Apple TV and more than 300 thousand people have streamed it so far.

The first season also aired tv as a one hour special. The same is expected for this season.

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Apple bought a startup that makes listening to podcasts more like listening to a radio station.

Bloomberg says Scout FM creates podcast stations on various topics like Spotify and apple music create stations based on songs and is already popular among apple users. it also worked with Android devices and Amazon’s Alexa. Apple  shut down the app after the purchase.

The iPhone maker was one of the first technology players to popularize podcasting 15 years ago. It has since slowly added new features to its Podcast app across nearly all of its devices.

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Text message based news is one of media's newest experiments.

One of the most successful attempts is The New Paper which is based in Indiana. it’s been around only six months and curates and summarizes the day’s top stories into one daily text message.

What’s new in Publishing reports that the service has over 7000 paid subscribers and projects $400,000 dollars in annual revenue. The company charges five dollars a month.

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A new poll of live music bosses says they’re hopeful gigs will be back sometime next year. Concerts have been scaled back and most cases eliminated by COVID-19. Digital Music News says more than half of the execs think concerts  “will return to full capacity in 2021.” About a third of the bosses think it’ll take another year. 15 percent have no idea.

The largest concert ticket company, Live Nation, expects concerts and festivals to return “at scale” next summer.

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iHeartMedia has added regular national, regional and local sports breaks to its 500+ radio stations, most of which are not sports focused. This is according to Sports Business Daily. 

Sports personalities like Cris Collinsworth, Colin Cowherd, Dan Patrick and Joy Taylor are expected to appear on non-sports radio stations as well. 

The move is part of iHeartMedia’s launch of the iHeartSports Network. The company cites a study that said 83% of sports fans want daily updates and a Nielsen stat that says 89% of sports fans listen to the radio every week.

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Pre-pandemic, 60% of parents said their children spent no more than three hours on devices. Now, 70% estimate their kids spend at least four hours with screens.

Games are a popular source of entertainment for children, with 70% of parents overall saying their kids interact with that type of content while on their devices.

YouTube was the most popular entertainment platform among children of all ages, with 62% of parents saying their children use the video platform.

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