Azoff Resigns From iHeartMedia Board
According to Variety, Azoff had been on the board since September 2010. In 2013, Azoff launched Global Music Rights (GMR), an upstart music licensing company that represents a handful of top artists. As has been well documented in recent months, Azoff has gone to war with the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), which negotiates with licensing companies on behalf of the nation’s radio stations. After talks broke down with GMR last fall, the two sides filed competing anti-trust lawsuits against each other, which remain pending in federal court.” As the Variety piece theorizes, “In light of the legal battle — which Azoff has called the most important fight of his career — Azoff’s continued presence on the board of the nation’s largest radio company may have become untenable.”