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Pandora set terms for its initial public offering that value the Internet radio company at about $2.56 billion, in the latest test of investors' appetite for fast-growing Web companies.

Harold Camping, the radio preacher who incorrectly predicted that the Rapture would happen last month, has reportedly been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

Kenneth Branagh is to star in an eight-hour dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's epic Life And Fate for BBC Radio 4.

Herman Cain, a radio talk show host and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, announced on Saturday his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio personality over a race that would be both costly and caustic.

Sirius XM Radio said profit jumped 88% on a 9% increase in revenue as it added subscribers.

Despite Republican-led calls to strip funding from NPR, public broadcasting emerged largely unscathed in the federal budget compromise hammered out in Congress over the past week.

The winners of the 2010 Peabody Awards include some of the biggest names in television, though the age-old medium of radio shined this year with eight awards. Winners announced Thursday by the University of Georgia include "The Moth Radio Hour," which celebrates storytelling, and WNYC's series "Radiolab," a scientific exploration show. Others include "Trafficked," a Youth Radio investigation into child sex-trafficking with vivid first-person accounts.

NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned in the wake of comments by a fellow executive that angered conservatives and renewed calls to end federal funding for public broadcasting.

NPR has not been having the best public relations year. And a new video recorded by James O'Keefe (he of undercover dressed-as-a-pimp fame) will not change that pattern. A sting operation has two operatives pretending to be wealthy Muslim donors who wish to help NPR in case Republicans have their way with the whole push for defunding.