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Washington: Open for Business, is giving local business owners in the Puget Sound area digital space to tell everyone they're open. MyNorthwest.com, has launched a page to prop up local businesses affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

WTOP News and Feed the Fight are partnering to recognize workers who are on the frontline fighting the coronavirus. WTOP’s “Frontline Heroes” campaign, will select two nominees per day beginning April 20th and award them with $100 each.

Bob Romanik is finally off the air. After years of battling the FCC Romanik could no longer fight to retain the license for KQQZ-AM in St. Louis where he hosted his Grim Reaper show.

Last week on Facebook, attorney Stephanie Few joined us to dig into the federal government's plan to help small businesses through the CARES Act. We were unable to answer all of the questions during the time we had with Stephanie that day. We forwarded her all of the remaining questions and here are the answers...

Bonneville has over 1,000 employees at its 21 stations across 6 markets. We find out how the company is dealing with the coronavirus crisis in this interview with Bonneville President Darrell Brown and Communications and Content Manager Candice Madsen. LISTEN

Marketing attribution software company LeadsRx, is offering independently owned radio broadcasters a complimentary analysis of their client’s terrestrial advertising during the months of April and May.

WHUR-FM 96.3 (Howard University), 106.7 The Fan, WPGC 95.5, 94.7 The Drive (Entercom) and La Mera Mera 1050-AM (Hubbard) will be airing :60 second features with the latest coronavirus news, produced by WTOP.

Those four new members are: Andrew Sutor, Executive VP and General Counsel at Entercom, Flynn Foster, President of Guaranty Media, Tom Koser, CEO of the Koser Radio Group and Bryan Broadcasting VP Ben Downs.

As Major League Baseball - and every other sports league - waits for the pandemic to pass, stations that air play-by-play are coming up with new and innovative ways to talk sports and keep the fans engaged. Here's what Entercom is doing with the San Diego Padres.

WOAP AM/FM in Owosso, MI will broadcast the local high school graduation in May. The broadcast will be part of a drive-in ceremony at the school.