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Beasley Media Group's Philadelphia cluster is giving away $250,000 in advertising grants to local businesses. WXTU-FM, WMMR-FM, BEN-FM, The Fanatic and WMGK-FM will all participate in the initiative to support small businesses in the Philadelphia area.

Cumulus Media will remember George Floyd Tuesday. 8:46-Remembering George Floyd, is set for Noon CST on all Cumulus stations today. 

Airing 81,412 commercials on radio stations across America kept Progressive Insurance on top of the weekly Media Monitors list. Lowes moved from 10th to 2nd with 56,320. Babbel dropped one position to number 3 (55,114), GEICO was 4th (42,672) followed by Allstate (37,321).

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host the first in a series of free webinars focusing on programming during COVID recovery. Global Radio Ideas: How Programming is Changing as the World Reopens,, will be offered Thursday, June 11.

KRST Country Cares for St. Jude Kid's Radiothon will run two days on 92.3 KRST Country in Albuquerque. The event is set for June 11 and 12 on the Cumulus Media station.

Business News 97.5 has debuted in Indianapolis. iHeartMedia is turning to Bloomberg Radio to feed the 24 hour business radio offering featuring experts and journalists in economics, politics and investment banking. The format is being broadcast from an FM Translator.

ESPN's syndicated Dan Le Batard Show, which is based in Miami, will broadcast from its studio for the first time in nearly three months starting today. Like most other radio shows the Le Batard crew has been doing the show remotely.

On Friday, Nielsen released results from its second study tracking national consumer sentiment on COVID-19 recovery and purchase intentions. Over one thousand adults were in the study done late last month. The same study was done in late April. The shift in the attitudes of consumers in that one 4-week period was incredible.

(By Bob McCurdy) I was talking the other day with the owner of a medium sized successful agency in New York who has been a good pal for over three decades. I was asking him how his business was faring with everything going on. He is obviously taking a hit like every other agency or media company.

(Randy Lane) In view of the chaos we’ve been experiencing, there are three trends emerging for broadcasters on-air and on social media.