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Popular long-time Orlando host Russ Rollins from iHeartMedia's Monsters in The Morning on WTKS-FM has been hospitalized with COVID after having to cut his vacation short when he started having breathing problems. Rollins is fully vaccinated and had been working from home.

The strategic partnership between Black Information Network and Real Times Media will focus on distribution of news that is important to the Black community across a variety of platforms. RTM, based in Detroit, focuses on media, marketing and content for urban audiences.

Newsmax is syndicating 'The Rob Carson Show' heard on WCBM 680 in Baltimore. Carson, longtime writer and producer of political satire for Rush Limbaugh, airs 12n to 3pm weekdays.

News Talk 580/105.9 KMJ has helped to raise more than a half-million dollars for the Central California Foodbank. The Cumulus station partnered with local agriculture company Gar Bennett for the 2021 Feeding Families Fund Drive.

102.5 WDVE14th annual 'DVE Rocks for Children’s Radiothon' raised a record-breaking amount of over $1.06 million in support of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. For the past 14 years, the Radiothon has raised over $8.7 million to benefit UPMC Children’s.

Will the FCC get involved in a dispute between a radio station and SoundExchange? The company that collects money from radio stations that stream music online hopes so and has filed an "informal objection" to KWHO's license renewal with the Commission.

Those were the words of Urban One Regional Vice President Deon Levingston at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference last week. More specifically Levingston was talking about politicians and how both Urban and Hispanic stations give them too much free airtime and do not demand that political ad dollars follow.

WTMX Chicago radio host Eric Ferguson is being accused, by a former assistant producer, of forcing her to perform sexual favors. Ferguson, through his attorney, denies the allegations and Hubbard says it thoroughly investigated the claims.

Business Forward, a nationwide coalition of 100,000+ small business leaders, has launched a $1.2 million radio ad campaign in 12 swing congressional districts across the country about clean economy solutions and climate action.

For the third week in a row, privacy protecting search engine DuckDuckGo remains number one on the Media Monitors radio chart. The company aired more than 51,000 ads last week.