āQuest for 10,000 High-Fivesā at Salem Fair raises awareness over suicide prevention
Read full article: āQuest for 10,000 High-Fivesā at Salem Fair raises awareness over suicide preventionThe event is a partnership between iHeartMedia Roanoke - Lynchburg and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
K92ā²s Zack Jackson stepping away from Morninā Thang after 20 years
Read full article: K92ā²s Zack Jackson stepping away from Morninā Thang after 20 yearsāI have decided to step away from the day-to-day operations of the K92 Morninā Thang,ā said Zack Jackson, one of Roanokeās most notable radio hosts announced on-air Friday morning.
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Dick & Daveās Miracle Day making a difference for local families despite pandemic
Read full article: Dick & Daveās Miracle Day making a difference for local families despite pandemicROANOKE COUNTY, Va. ā In the 18 years of Dick & Daveās Miracle Day fundraiser, this is the first year they canāt bring families into the Q99 studio to share their stories. The annual radiothon supports children in local hospitals through Childrenās Miracle Network by providing critical medical equipment and services for the NICU and pediatric units at Carilion Childrenās, Virginia Baptist and Lynchburg General Hospitals. Instead, Daniels and Page did socially-distanced interviews beforehand with families who rely on Childrenās Miracle Network. Between countless surgeries, hospital and doctorās visits, Meredith doesnāt know what they would have done without Childrenās Miracle Network. In the past two decades, Dick & Daveās Miracle Day has raised more than $2 million.
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'I canāt help but feel that Iām letting everybody downā: Rush Limbaugh announces advanced lung cancer diagnosis
Read full article: 'I canāt help but feel that Iām letting everybody downā: Rush Limbaugh announces advanced lung cancer diagnosisāI canāt escape⦠Even though people are telling me itās not the way to look at it, I canāt help but feel that Iām letting everybody down with this,ā Limbaugh said. What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or ā you know, Iām 69 ā it could have been my heart. So Iām gonna be gone the next couple days as we figure out the treatment course of action and have further testing done. But as I said, Iām gonna be here as often as I can. I know youāre there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say.
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Q99ās Dick Daniels hosts 30th Christmas Day live broadcast
Read full article: Q99ās Dick Daniels hosts 30th Christmas Day live broadcastQ99ā²s Dick Daniels hosted his 30th Christmas Day live broadcast. Theyāre requesting songs, theyāre asking for stories, and a lot of them are just texting in to say, āMerry Christmas. āWhen my son was 18 months old, they called in to the station on Christmas morning and our goal was to try and get him to say Merry Christmas. Instead, it came out hey shmayvics,ā Daniels said, laughing. Have a great day!āāHe plans to keep doing the Christmas Day broadcasts as long as the radio station will let him.
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James āRadioā Kennedy, football fixture who inspired a Hollywood movie, dies at 73
Read full article: James āRadioā Kennedy, football fixture who inspired a Hollywood movie, dies at 73James āRadioā Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie āRadio,ā died early Sunday at the age of 73, T.L. Kennedy earned the nickname āRadioā in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at Hannaās football field with a transistor radio, according to Sheila Hilton, the former principal at Hanna. āHe became a fixture at football practices, standing passively and watching, until one day when he began to mimic the coachesā signals and tried his hand at yelling out commands,ā Hilton wrote. That article was then adapted into the 2003 movie "Radio" that starred Cuba Gooding Jr. as Radio and Ed Harris as the football coach who took a liking to him. Hilton wrote that Radio's story had a simple message: "love and compassion can change lives."
