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The former San Diego sports station will be called The Mightier 1090 and will include more than sports. Arizona ad agency executive Bill Hagen has invested in the station which went off the air a year ago due to financial reasons.

WLYB-FM in Livingston, Alabama is almost certainly the type of broadcast operation Chairman Pai wants to help. Livingston is situated in Sumter County, Alabama, which USA Today identified in 2019 as the poorest county in the United States.

On Monday iHeartMedia teamed up with Foodshare, Hammond Iles and NEFCO Corporation to donate face masks to all first responders in East Hartford, as well as provide food and face masks to residents of the state.

Tim Greene, afternoon personality on WSGE-91.7 FM, Charlotte, is helping youth in an outreach program stay connected while staying home. Greene purchased and presented laptop computers to students in the NC Works NEXTGEN program.

One of radio's most successful all-news radio stations, Hubbard Radio's WTOP has had to alter the way it covers news. That's a big staff making monumental changes. Director of News and Programming Julia Ziegler explains how they're getting it done on episode #31 of Radio Ink's Coronavirus update. LISTEN

(By Jamie Aplin) As states begin to reopen, our job as sellers is about to explode like never before. Local businesses will be desperate for help to get their message out, but are we prepared and positioned to be the ones chosen for the task?

With 60,621 commercials aired on radio stations all across the country last week, Progressive Insurance held onto the top spot on the Media Monitors weekly chart. The US Census Bureau was 2nd (56,018) followed by Babbel, up from 9th (47,259) and Lowe's (45,910).

State Farm and iHeartMedia are working together to bring communities together through music. The iHeartRadio Living Room Concert Series is a weekly performance series with the goal of bringing Americans together in the comfort and safety of their living rooms for performances by some of the biggest artists in music.

Sun Broadcast Group's SPLAT! Radio Imaging announced today that they have launched four new services.

(By Jackson Dell Weaver) Everyone talks ‘game’ about pivoting.  How do we pivot in this extraordinary time?  So far my favorite pivot is the self-described dive bar with decent food in Queens, that faced with closure as a non-essential business.