‘Our move to for-profit gives us more financial flexibility and makes us nimbler to do what we need to do,’ says BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill
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BMI to slash ‘just under 10%’ of total workforce
News comes just over a week after it was reported that BMI had scrapped a planned multi-billion dollar company sale
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BMI and RMLC settle radio royalty rate dispute
New agreed-upon rate is retroactive to 2017
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The Estate of Michael Jackson and BMI extend catalog representation
Deal was last renewed in 2014
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BMI appoints Shirin Foroutan as Vice President, Creative, Europe
Foroutan will be based out of BMI’s London office
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TUE. BRIEF: Synergy Global Is Bankrupt • BMI Delivers $1.3B • McKay Exits Resound • Axs TV Sold • More
TUESDAY 9.10.19
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BMI claims ‘highest royalty distributions of any music rights org’ as it pays out $1.196bn to songwriters and publishers
The US-based performance rights organization collected a record $1.283bn
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Record Store Finds Uncashed Kurt Cobain 27 Years Old Royalty Check
The staff at Seattle ‘s Easy Street Records recently stumbled across an unchased royalty check made out to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain 27 years ago.The check was from Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) and made out to Kurt D. Cobain of Olympia, Washington. It was dated March 6, 1991, just months before…
MON. BRIEF: ASCAP, BMI Consent Decree Arguments • Sonos Revenue Grows • 9128 Launches • More
MONDAY 5.12.19
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Justice Dept. Opens Review of ASCAP, BMI Consent Decrees
The U.S. Justice Department will review two consent decrees originally reached in 1941 with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI) to establish how the organizations, which license approximately 90% of music in the United States, must operate. Under the consent decrees, the…