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The UK Chart, an internationally syndicated 2-hour weekly radio show, has signed Tom Watts as host. The program counts down the Top 30 songs compiled by RadioMonitor determined by airplay across the UK.

A new iHeartPodcast slate of true-crime shows is being produced in collaboration with KT-Studios. The new slate debuts with 'The Dougherty Gang', a 12-episode limited series about three siblings and a 15 state crime spree.

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?

(By Mike McVay) Last week news broke that, according to a study by the research firm MoffetNathanson, radio revenues will rebound in 2021 by 12%. That is truly a positive sign, and significantly better than seeing the 25% loss in radio revenues from 2019-2020, driven by the pandemic.

Iliad Media Group announced the return of Rick Morton and his Hey Morton morning show on KWYD-FM in Boise. Morton spent part of his early career in the Treasure Valley market hosting the Wild Wake Up Show. The show is now syndicated out of San Diego.