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Legendary talk show host Larry King has been in a Los Angeles hospital for the past week with COVID-19. In 1978, King began a nightly midnight-to-dawn radio show on 28 cities over the Mutual Broadcasting System. By the 1980s, The Larry King Show was being carried by more than 250 affiliates.

After losing her mother to COVID, 25-year old Vanessa Perez is adopting and raising her five younger siblings. In order to help support Vanessa with the funeral expenses and help get a start for providing for her siblings, Sierra is encouraging listeners to contribute to a GoFundMe it set up for her.

Jon Laing is the new Market Manager for Cumulus Cincinnati. Laing moves up after three years as VP of Sales for the cluster which includes five stations. Laing takes over for Dave Crowl who retired after 44 years in the business.

NewsRadio 610 / NewsRadio 96.7, have a named Chris Ryan as the new host for New Hampshire Today. He joins iHeart New Hampshire from WKXL in Concord where he was GM for the New Hampshire Family Radio station.

Andy Luberda, Operations Manager for Skyview Networks has died. His family said he died December 29 from complications of COVID-19. Luberda was 51.

WRKO-AM 680 has added Grace Curley and Jesse Kelly to the 2021 line up. The shows debut January 4, 2021.

Ian Beckles and Jay Recher have been named the new afternoon drive program on 95.3 WDAE. The duo will continue hosting the afternoon drive program after the retirement of Tampa Bay radio icon Ron Diaz.

Amazon has announced that it is buying podcasting company Wondery. According to the announcement on Amazon, Wondery will join Amazon Music. Financial details of the deal have not been announced.

As of December 30th, radio stations across the country have raised $28.5 million for their local communities. With 2 days to go in this year, what will radio's 2020 tally be as the final community fundraisers trickle in. Send your community fundraising story to [email protected]

Long-time WTIC Hartford morning show co-host Joe D’Ambrosio announced on Twitter his last day will be Thursday. D’Ambrosio said he bought out his contract, which was to expire in June of 2021.