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Alice Stockton-Rossini was covering the coronavirus story in Westchester for WOR in New York City back in early March. Westchester was filled with coronivirus cases, considered one of the hot spots in the city.

KC101FM in New Haven is teaming up with the Connecticut Food Bank for a virtual food drive to support the food bank’s need for food due to the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout all of April, donations can be made online. 

William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, who had a financial program on three north Texas radio stations, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

United Stations and AccuWeather are teaming up to expand their coverage of the continually evolving coronavirus pandemic.

Bob Layton, News Manager for Corus Radio Edmonton, celebrates an impressive 50 years in broadcasting on April 3. In his current role working with both FM stations and talk radio in Edmonton, Layton manages news programming for 630 CHED, Global News Radio 880 Edmonton, 92.5 The Chuck and CISN Country.

iHeartMedia has hired Bailey Coleman as the new VP of Programming for the company's 8-station cluster in New Orleans. Coleman takes over for Angela Watson-Charles, who was promoted to an EVP role at iHeart's new Community Division.

iHeartRadio and Quibi are partnering on a new daily music news show. Pop5 will provided information about pop music today and some of its biggest artists.

Emmis Communications and MediaCo Holding has added a new Chief Technology Officer in New York City. Alex Roman has been promoted in the cluster that includes WQHT, Hot 97 and WBLS-107.5.

Beth Mann's Edge Media Group in Kentucky has launched a new initiative to help local businesses called Support Local.

James Derby is the Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Programming for Federatd Media. The company has radio stations in Indiana, one of the early states to institute the stay at home strategy to combat the virus. Let's find out how Federated Media is working through the crisis. LISTEN