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The Country Oldies Show, the longest-running weekly radio program dedicated to Classic Country music, has a new network affiliation with MOR Media International. The show is hosted by Steve Warren.

Bonneville music stations are giving high school students the chance to enjoy a virtual prom night at home with some of the country’s top DJs and surprise performances by music stars.

iHeartMedia's Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020, is a new podcast for America’s graduation month featuring commencement addresses from TV stars, athletes, journalists and others.

Lee Hale, host of KUER 90.1, NPR Utah's Preach Podcast, is moving to Washington D. C. to become Editor and Producer of All Things Considered. Hale, who also worked as a religion and education reporter at KUER, has hosted the Podcast for two seasons.

Hubbard Radio in Seattle has started a program to help local charities raise awareness and funds during the COVID-19 crisis. Fight Back, Give Back is using all of the groups platforms to help get the message out about the dire need that non-profits in the Puget Sound area are experiencing.

Washington: Open for Business, is giving local business owners in the Puget Sound area digital space to tell everyone they're open. MyNorthwest.com, has launched a page to prop up local businesses affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

WTOP News and Feed the Fight are partnering to recognize workers who are on the frontline fighting the coronavirus. WTOP’s “Frontline Heroes” campaign, will select two nominees per day beginning April 20th and award them with $100 each.

Radio.com, the digital platform Entercom picked up in the CBS Radio deal, now has 40 million monthly users and 28 million unique listeners (in March) across its podcast network. The company also says Radio.com grew 63%, over the past year, across all platforms.

Bob Romanik is finally off the air. After years of battling the FCC Romanik could no longer fight to retain the license for KQQZ-AM in St. Louis where he hosted his Grim Reaper show.

Last week on Facebook, attorney Stephanie Few joined us to dig into the federal government's plan to help small businesses through the CARES Act. We were unable to answer all of the questions during the time we had with Stephanie that day. We forwarded her all of the remaining questions and here are the answers...