Dick & Daveโs Miracle Day making a difference for local families despite pandemic
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. โ In the 18 years of Dick & Daveโs Miracle Day fundraiser, this is the first year they canโt bring families into the Q99 studio to share their stories. The annual radiothon supports children in local hospitals through Childrenโs Miracle Network by providing critical medical equipment and services for the NICU and pediatric units at Carilion Childrenโs, Virginia Baptist and Lynchburg General Hospitals. Instead, Daniels and Page did socially-distanced interviews beforehand with families who rely on Childrenโs Miracle Network. Between countless surgeries, hospital and doctorโs visits, Meredith doesnโt know what they would have done without Childrenโs Miracle Network. In the past two decades, Dick & Daveโs Miracle Day has raised more than $2 million.
'I canโt help but feel that Iโm letting everybody downโ: Rush Limbaugh announces advanced lung cancer diagnosis
โI canโt escapeโฆ Even though people are telling me itโs not the way to look at it, I canโt help but feel that Iโm letting everybody down with this,โ Limbaugh said. What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or โ you know, Iโm 69 โ it could have been my heart. So Iโm 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, Iโm gonna be here as often as I can. I know youโre there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say.
Q99โs Dick Daniels hosts 30th Christmas Day live broadcast
Q99โฒs Dick Daniels hosted his 30th Christmas Day live broadcast. Theyโre requesting songs, theyโre asking for stories, and a lot of them are just texting in to say, โMerry Christmas. โWhen 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,โ Daniels said, laughing. Have a great day!โโHe plans to keep doing the Christmas Day broadcasts as long as the radio station will let him.
James โRadioโ Kennedy, football fixture who inspired a Hollywood movie, dies at 73
James โRadioโ Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie โRadio,โ died early Sunday at the age of 73, T.L. Kennedy earned the nickname โRadioโ in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at Hannaโs football field with a transistor radio, according to Sheila Hilton, the former principal at Hanna. โHe became a fixture at football practices, standing passively and watching, until one day when he began to mimic the coachesโ signals and tried his hand at yelling out commands,โ 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."