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BMG Takes Giant Step For Songwriters

• BMG announced that it’s eliminating a longstanding U.S. record label deduction which serves to reduce the income of songwriters,

• Entercom announced a new multiyear contract extension with longtime South Florida radio personality Julie Guy to continue as co-host

• Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the appointment of Shira Perlmutter as the 14th Register of Copyrights and Director

• Wildly popular short-form video app TikTok has taken its fight with the Trump Administration to courts, filing a legal

• Disgraced former WFAN/New York host Craig Carton, who lost his job and went to prison after scamming investors with

• Eighteen years after Run-DMC DJ Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell was gunned down in a Queens, NY recording studio,

• A bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives now supports the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) after 12

• The New York Post reports that former WFAN/New York host Craig Carton was granted early release from federal prison

• Ray Anthony Watkins, the man accused of running a red light and killing Don Hall (pictured), the longtime morning

• Concurrent with the announcement of Rick Sackheim‘s promotion to EVP/GM, Epic Records also announced the elevation of Ezekiel “Zeke”