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This new content for vets created by CBS Radio will be produced and presented by vets who understand the complexity and stages of transitioning from the military ranks back into civilian life. Programming can be found at connectingvets.com and Radio.com, with audio on demand available at connectivingvets.com/podcasts, and programming on the air on WJFK-AM in Washington.

Their annual Corporate Leadership Award goes to the transportation company for its FedEx Cares program, which invests in communities around the world. In support of these efforts, FedEx has committed to investing $200 million in more than 200 communities by 2020.

The three Legend Communications country stations of Wyoming -- KGWY-FM, Gillette; KZMQ-FM, Cody; and KLGT-FM, Buffalo-Sheridan, have raised over $100,000 with their annual St. Jude Radiothons. That takes the total raised over the past 11 years to more than $1.2 million.

Nineteen Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards, in fact, including the Outstanding News Operation award and the award for Best Website for WTOP.com. It was more awards than any other station in the metro region.

Radio stations all across the country are huge supporters of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and that organization sent this letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to let him know how appreciative they are for all the work radio does. The letter states that radio stations all across the country generated more than $20 million over the past year to help fight childhood cancer.

The only day off-campus is Wednesday, June 7th, when the students tour the Carolina Panthers facility and learn from Play-by-Play Announcer Mick Mixon, then to Charlotte Motor Speedway with the Voice and President of Performance Racing Network, Doug Rice, doing a session for the students and taking them around the track at 100 mph.

Automotive sales continued to be weak as U.S. light-vehicle sales dropped 0.5 percent in May compared to a year ago for radio's number one advertising category. Ford, Nissan and Honda saw an increase for the month, while General Motors, Toyota, FCA and Hyundai-Kia fell.

(By Bob McCurdy) With all of the discussion (long overdue) about neuroscience’s ability to corroborate audio’s impact on us physiologically and behaviorally, I thought it would be helpful to highlight a forgotten website, which I rediscovered earlier this week. The website is www.raisingthevolume.com.

(By Ronald Robinson) Breaking News: Radio is sporting a huge, sucking chest wound! For many, this wound has healed over, leaving only massive scar tissue, which can be hidden with a shirt. This condition has come to be called: Normal.