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Greg Scasny is the CTO of Cigent Technology, a company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks. He is also the luncheon speaker at Radio Ink's Forecast 2022. We reached out to Scasny about the Marketron attack to get his thoughts on what radio stations should expect as Marketron deals with the situation.

(By Michelle Wilken) You’re aware that “radio is one of the most powerful mediums in the U.S., with a weekly reach of “around 82.5% among adults,” according to Statista. So, why am I telling you to stop pitching only spots to your advertisers?

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host a free webinar featuring Ronnie Stanton, National Director of Music and Regional PD for Corus Entertainment. The webinar is set for September 23.

For the second week in a row, privacy protecting search engine DuckDuckGo remains number one on the Media Monitors radio chart. The company aired more than 53,000 ads last week.

In an e-mail to customers CEO Jim Howard said the cyberattack came from the Russian criminal organization BlackMatter.  All Marketron customers may experience an interruption in service. Howard says the company has not yet discovered how its network was exploited.

(By Randy Lane) Radio show producers have gone full circle. They were a luxury position in the ‘80s, a must-have in the early 2000s and back to a luxury position today.

Beasley Media’s AC Station WJBR-FM in Wilmington, DE raised $354,456 with their two day “Help Our Kids Radiothon” for the Nemours Alfred I. duPont Children’s Hospital.

Jacobs Media will present its 2021 Public Radio Techsurvey results during a webinar Thursday, September 30 at 2pm Eastern. This year’s study, “Public Radio in the COVID Era,” includes nearly 23,000 Public Radio listeners from 56 stations

Today at 11AM, musicFIRST Chairman Joe Crowley is hosting a virtual press briefing. The organization says it's to discuss growing support for "music fairness." He plans to show off the results from a musicFIRST national poll and discuss their path to battle the radio industry to get radio to pay for music airplay.

(By Rick Fink) How do you get advertisers to invest more money with you or renew with a rate increase? How do you get that hard-to-sell prospect to consider adding your station?