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“Selling air” has always been a battle when your biggest competitors have visuals to show off or data to brag about. Throw in COVID-19, and 2020 may go down as the toughest year to sell radio yet. We turned to several of our 2020 Radio Wayne finalists and asked them what their biggest challenges were (outside of COVID-19) and how they overcame them.

With help from Eric Weiss and The Weiss Agency, the former co-host of the syndicated Brooke and Jubal show has launched his own show into syndication. Jubal Fresh' new company is called Team Jubal Productions.

Midwest Communications announced on its Facebook page that WIMZ-FM host William Winningham, who went by the name Billy Kidd, has died at the age of 61. The cause of death was not listed. Winningham was inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame in 2018.

The entire iHeartMedia Chicago cluster of radio station will be helping the local Chicagoland community in their own unique way. Every station will be participating in a month-long "season of Thanksgiving." Here's how they plan to do it.

Alpha Media and Superadio, LLC, have signed an affiliation agreement with Ebro in the Morning with Laura Stylez and Rosenberg. The show will air on the company's hip-hop stations in Portland, San Antonio and Amarillo.

Entercom and Beasley have announced that all 64 of the Beasley Media Group stations across 15 markets will now be available on the Radio.com app. In addition all Beasley podcasts will also be made available on Radio.com. The Beasley stations are also on iHeartradio. 

WFMU has launched its Rock ’n’ Soul Radio Stream with a unique combination of AI based, upbeat DJ entities and human DJs. The stream features rock ‘n’ roll and soul music from the 1950s through modern day.

Country, Rock and News audiences all will get special attention from ABC Thanksgiving weekend. Among the hosts of the specials, country icon Dolly Parton.

iHeartMedia has launched a limited four episode podcast series featuring inspiring stories of four veterans. Vets You Should Know is hosted by Bobby Bones.

For 17 years Portland’s KPAM has assisted in raising over $2 million to support local military families in need through Operation Helping Our Heroes. This year’s fundraising campaign has kicked off and will culminate with a 12-hour benefit radiothon on Friday.