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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.

Grace Broadcast Sales is releasing a second series of audio features offering listeners encouragement and relief from the COVID-19 news of the day. We're All In This Together-Series 2, are 30-second audio features for stations to use as they see fit.

Bumping off the US Census Bureau, Lowes was the number one advertiser for radio last week, according to Media Monitors. The Home Improvement big box ran 63,150 commercials on radio stations across the country. Quicken Loans was the biggest mover.

KJ Allen is the President of The Oconee Radio Group in Georgia. Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti interviews KJ about his team is handling the coronavirus crisis and what the company is doing to help local advertisers stay in business. LISTEN

(By Jackson Del Weaver) Jim wasn’t what you’d expect. Today less so, but back then car dealers were often slick, fast talking and dressed to kill or at least maim. That wasn’t Jim – always a little disheveled wearing a white button down shirt with a colorless tie.

In this special video, Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads interviews Best-Selling Author, Award Winning Professional Speaker, TV Personality, and Business Mentor Lee Milteer. Milteer has counseled and trained more than a million people and has worked with Walt Disney, AT&T, Xerox, IBM, NASA and Federal Express. WATCH

(By Loyd Ford) The stress of our time is weighing on local business owners and it is the most significant challenge all of these people have faced in their lifetime.  It is well known that no one has seen anything like the voluntary turning off of the national economy happening now.