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The 2020 virtual Radio Show begins this afternoon at 2:00 Eastern with a CEO Town Hall. MSNBC Anchor Stephanie Ruhle will moderate a discussion with Cumulus CEO Mary Berner, Entercom CEO David Field and iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman.

As with nearly every other conference in America, The 20th Annual Power of Urban Radio Forum, set for October 15, will be virtual. The event focuses on the $1.5 trillion Black Consumer Market.

iHeartCountry will once again serve as the official radio partner of the 2020 CMT Music Awards. The live broadcast is set to air October 21.

ESPN Chicago’s David Kaplan raised more than $74,000 for Bernie’s Book Bank with the Walk as One Initiative. Bernie’s Book Bank is an organization that sources, processes, and distributes free, quality children’s books to under-served children.

On Friday The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would take up the long-running legal dispute over whether the FCC can loosen U.S. media ownership rules. A lower court has prevented the FCC's efforts to revise the rules since 2003.

The House has passed The Heroes Act, which includes provisions to expand eligibility for SBA loan access to broadcasters. Before you get your hopes up that financial relief is on the way, it has no chance of being approved by The Senate and signed by President Trump.

Adams Radio Group CEO Ron Stone says his company has moved its  national rep partnership to IBA Radio Sales which is managed by GenMedia Partners. Stone created the Independent Broadcasters Association which now has close to 3,000 radio stations.

During this week's Hispanic Radio LIVE "It's a Wrap," a discussion that started with the kick-off session on political advertising continued, including conversation about ad "environment." What's the impact of opinions expressed by personalities on the air and in social media by advertisers and agencies? Here's how we address that in week two.

Savage posted to Twitter that he was done with radio and going to podcasting exclusively. We asked him what the story was but he pushed us off to his attorney Daniel Horowitz who would only tell us, "we have something brewing."

In a Thursday press release, Spanish Broadcasting Systems announced that as part of regularly evaluating market conditions, the company is looking at refinancing options to help the company deleverage.