In a letter sent out Thursday evening, Cumulus notified all Westwood One News affiliates its service would be shutting down August 30, due to extraordinary circumstances. The letter told stations, “Due to the extraordinary circumstances in the current marketplace, Westwood One News will be ceasing operations effective on Sunday, August 30, 2020, following the 11:30pm ET newscast.  Please accept this letter as official notification of the cancellation of this service.”  

Former senior civil servant Rachel Cartland has announced she's stepping down as a guest presenter on an RTHK radio programme, citing concerns over the new national security law. Cartland, a former assistant director of Social Welfare, told RTHK's Backchat programme on Wednesday she was most concerned about the article against subversion, where it was an offence to undermine the Hong Kong government. “Now that seems to me to be something that we could be potentially accused of quite often, so either we’re not going to have robust discussions because we’re going to be worried about that, or else we may be doing something illegal," she said.

New 2GB breakfast host and successor to radio stalwart Alan Jones, Ben Fordham, says his Drive shift fans followed him to Breakfast because radio creates loyal fans and ‘sticky’ listeners. Speaking to advertisers and marketers at Nine’s Big Ideas Store, he said, “I’ve got a loyal group of listeners who’ve been with me for 10 years on the Drive show and they’re a very loyal audience in radio. They’re sticky. Once they connect with you and once they get you, I think they tend to stay around. Even though you’ll have disagreements on some topics, or many topics, once that relationship is formed, thankfully, it tends to last."

The U2 frontman admitted he likes to "put on a voice" and participate in listener phone-in discussions