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The topic for Tuesday's Radio Ink Facebook Live interview with Charlie Sislen was How COVID-19 is Changing The Way We Sell and Charlie provided our viewers with mountains of great information. Catch the replay HERE. On deck Thursday at 11:00AM, Westwood One/Cumulus' Pierre Bouvard. .

(By Buzz Knight) Here are 8 things for the radio industry to grapple with that literally keep me up at night. This list I compiled over two consecutive nights of restlessness.

CBS Audio's Memorial Day three-hour May 25th special will be hosted by Gil Gross. Topics will include: The untold story of the real origin of Memorial Day, How to backyard BBQ in a social distancing world and How the VFW is honoring veterans during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Bonneville's Denver cluster held a virtual food drive in conjunction with 9Cares Colorado Shares and pulled in over $1 million which will be used to produce over 4 million meals.

The NAB Show Express will feature discussions on HD and Hybrid radio technology. Xperi is providing experts for the online sessions May 14.

Lengthy shifts are commonplace these days for healthcare workers in the midst of the COVID battle. To mark National Nurses Week CISN Country 103.9 in Edmonton will broadcast a 12 hour edition of CISN In The Morning, Friday, May 15.

The 2020 Regional Murrow Award Winners, representing the best in local broadcast news, have been announced. More than five thousand entries were considered from more than 350 local radio and television news outlets from 49 states and four countries.

Nurses and medical staff at a Seattle medical center were treated to BBQ this week by MOViN 92.5. Brooke from the Brooke & Jeffery Show served up the thank you dinner to celebrate National Nurses Week.

That's the damage the coronavirus inflicted on the company and it pretty much happened in one month. Cumulus was rolling along nicely in January and February, until a national lockdown was put in place in March to flatten to curve, which is when the bottom fell out.

As radio companies react to a national pandemic that shut down the United States economy, finding ways to cut and save has become a top priority. On the Cumulus earnings call Monday, CEO Mary Berner said through the actions the company has taken, $60 million will be saved in 2020 to help cushion the coronavirus blow.