The event is a partnership between iHeartMedia Roanoke - Lynchburg and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

A local country music radio voice will soon sign off. “Boomer” has turned in his two weeks’ notice to 94.9 STAR country.

“I have decided to step away from the day-to-day operations of the K92 Mornin’ Thang,” said Zack Jackson, one of Roanoke’s most notable radio hosts announced on-air Friday morning.

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – In the 18 years of Dick & Dave’s Miracle Day fundraiser, this is the first year they can’t bring families into the Q99 studio to share their stories. The annual radiothon supports children in local hospitals through Children’s Miracle Network by providing critical medical equipment and services for the NICU and pediatric units at Carilion Children’s, Virginia Baptist and Lynchburg General Hospitals. Instead, Daniels and Page did socially-distanced interviews beforehand with families who rely on Children’s Miracle Network. Between countless surgeries, hospital and doctor’s visits, Meredith doesn’t know what they would have done without Children’s Miracle Network. In the past two decades, Dick & Dave’s Miracle Day has raised more than $2 million.

“I can’t escape… Even though people are telling me it’s not the way to look at it, I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with this,” Limbaugh said. What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or — you know, I’m 69 — it could have been my heart. So I’m 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, I’m gonna be here as often as I can. I know you’re there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say.

Q99′s Dick Daniels hosted his 30th Christmas Day live broadcast. They’re requesting songs, they’re asking for stories, and a lot of them are just texting in to say, ‘Merry Christmas. “When 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,” Daniels said, laughing. Have a great day!’”He plans to keep doing the Christmas Day broadcasts as long as the radio station will let him.

James “Radio” Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie “Radio,” died early Sunday at the age of 73, T.L. Kennedy earned the nickname “Radio” in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at Hanna’s football field with a transistor radio, according to Sheila Hilton, the former principal at Hanna. “He became a fixture at football practices, standing passively and watching, until one day when he began to mimic the coaches’ signals and tried his hand at yelling out commands,” 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."