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United Stations Media Networks is moving to help stations fill the gap left by virus canceled live events. The live Country Music series, The Road, and the Classic Rock series, Live In Concert, are part of the offer.

On Thursday Jacobs Media presented its annual Tech Survey. This year 46,000 people from over 500 radio stations participated in the survey between January 7 and February 9. Fred Jacobs made the hour-long presentation from the basement of his home in Detroit.

As of the most recent Edison Research update, the portion of AM/FM listening represented by the streams is 8%. How might the crisis gripping the nation affect digital listening? Here's what Edison President Larry Rosin had to say...

The coronavirus pandemic is not only causing some of radio's biggest companies to borrow millions of dollars to stay solvent, it's leading to salary cuts to keep people employed. Adams Radio Group is cutting the salary for every employee by 10%.

Bob Call is the Market Manager for Bonneville's four stations in Denver. He's been the Market Manager for 31 years and he's been in the Denver market for 40 years. LISTEN to how Bob and his team are dealing with the pandemic crisis and helping their advertisers survive.

(By John Garziglia) In response to COVID-19, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued a Public Notice with the subtitle “Free Advertisements Need Not Be Included in Lowest Unit Charge”. The FCC issued this guidance in response to an informal inquiry from broadcasters asking whether free advertisements must be included in the calculation of the political lowest unit rate charge.  

The world has changed. We've gone from near full employment to 10% unemployment in the blink of an eye. The coronavirus is impacting every aspect of our lives. That includes advertising. Salem has also announced it's withdrawing its Q1 guidance due to the pandemic.

WBAP-AM and KLIF-AM in Dallas are hosting an on-air Town Hall Friday with entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban. The goal will be to discuss ways to help Dallas area businesses during the coronavirus crisis.

On Friday Cox Media Group Atlanta's 5 radio stations will host a virtual food drive benefiting the Atlanta Community Food Bank as part of the Stronger Together ATL campaign. Listeners will be able to make monetary donations on the station websites.

KOSI 101.1 in Denver brings Christmas to the morning March 27. The Bonneville station becomes the latest station, to help listeners cope with COVID-19 using Christmas music.