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ANA CEO Bob Liodice was our guest on Facebook Live Tuesday. Bob deals with advertisers and marketers every day. We picked his brain on what you can do to talk to your clients now, as they wait out this crisis. Here's how to watch our interview...

Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti interviews NRG CEO Mary Quass. Quass offers her reflections on how her stations are serving listeners during the current crisis and how the new normal will be different tomorrow. LISTEN

The Horn, KOKE-FM and 105.3 The Bat, raised more than $270,000 in their “Buy a Box” campaign benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank. The “Buy a Box” campaign urges listeners to donate $30 for a 28-lb emergency food box containing 23 meals.

iHeart's New Hampshire cluster, with help from TV station WMUR, have raised over $760,000 for the New Hampshire Food Bank following a one-hour broadcast called: “Project Community: New Hampshire Together From Home.”

Cox Media Group (CMG) Tampa partnered with Metropolitan Ministries to host Feed It Forward: A Virtual Food Drive April 16. More than a quarter-million dollars was raised in donations to help families who have been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hoosier first responders and essential workers are getting a boxed lunch boost from the Indy based The Bob & Tom Show. The show is teaming up with a bank chain and a local restaurant company to raise funds to buy boxed lunches for those on the frontlines of fighting the COVID-19 virus.

(By Rick Fink) “New Normal” is the new catchphrase these days, but what will the “new normal” look and sound like? If you have stepped up your reading game in the past five weeks, you have seen and read all the new predictions.

On Monday another letter was sent to President Trump urging him to help local media outlets devastated by extreme advertising revenue declines. The letter, authored by Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Bill Flores (R-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Fred Upton (R-MI) now has over 240 signatures.

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) spoke on the Senate floor Monday, urging her colleagues to make local media outlets eligible for funding through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. Watch Cantwell HERE. Read the transcript HERE.

Josh Spiegel is part of the Justin, Scott and Spiegel Show on 98 Rock in Baltimore. We reached out to Josh to discuss how he's been able to weave a sense of humor into all of this coronavirus craziness. And, he's done it in a very respectable, smart way. LISTEN