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JOY-FM listeners in St. Louis are very generous. On Thursday they were invited to support their favorite Christian artists and came through with over $123,000. JOY FM hosted 15-minute “Tip Jar” concerts and invited listeners to toss money into the virtual tip jar.

New findings from the 2020 Techsurvey will be released on June 16th. Register for the free webinar HERE.

If the millionaires and billionaires can come to an agreement on how many Major League Baseball games might be played in a coronavirus shortened season, radio announcers will not be traveling to the away games.

The latest monthly top podcast chart has been released by Triton and NPR occupies 9 of the top 15 positions. The latest chart covers April 13 through May 10.

Philly's Favor 100.7, which launches Monday, is already planning a big community event. In celebration of the launch, station President Jonathan Mason, and The Real Deal Food Ministry, will host a food giveaway for 500 families in need. The giveaway will be Tuesday, from 11-1 while supplies last.

According to The Minnesota Broadcasters Association all Twin Cities commercial radio stations will join broadcast outlets from across the state to show support for each other through “Twin Cities Night of Light.”

Big River Broadcasting President Jerry Phillips, made the announcement Thursday that Halley Phillips has been named Vice President of Big River Broadcasting, and VP of all of the Phillips family businesses.

Syracuse.com has the details about Rich Lauber who is no longer with iHeart's WBBS-FM after 35 years in Central New York radio. Lauber spent most of his radio years in afternoon drive and was also operations manager for the iHeart Syracuse cluster.

The world is salivating for sports to begin again. Until then, sports stations are finding creative ways to talk sports. Beginning Saturday 850 ESPN Cleveland is adding a golf show to its lineup—“Let’s Go Golfing!”

We now have over 50 episodes of our podcast with radio's top executives including Bud Walters, Jim Leven, Carolyn Gilbert, Mary Quass, Ben Downs, Christine Travaglini, and many others How are you going to get through the COVID-19 crisis? Click HERE and listen to how your colleagues are doing it.