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BMI Board Elects New Chairman

October 20, 2011/by Sarah Skates

Susan Davenport Austin

Susan Davenport Austin was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Broadcast Music, Inc. at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, held this week in Nashville. A respected media executive, Austin serves as a director and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation and President of the Sheridan Gospel Network. Austin’s family founded Sheridan in 1972. She is the first woman and the first African-American elected to serve as Chairman of the BMI Board.

Re-elected Board members: Craig A. Dubow, former Chairman and CEO, Gannett Co., Inc., McLean, VA; Paul Karpowicz, President, Meredith Broadcasting Group, Rocky Hill, CT; Virginia Hubbard Morris, Chair, Hubbard Radio and Vice President, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., St. Paul, MN; and G. Neil Smith, President, GNS Media, LLC, Liberty, SC. All will serve terms that expire in 2015.

Continuing their terms on the Board are: Del R. Bryant, President & CEO, BMI, New York, NY; Jack Sander, former Vice Chairman of Belo Corporation in Dallas, Texas; Amador Bustos, President, Bustos Media Holdings, LLC, Portland, OR; N. John Douglas, Chairman and CEO, AIM Broadcasting, LLC, Palo Alto, CA; Kenneth J. Elkins, (Retired) President & CEO, Pulitzer Broadcasting and Senior Vice President, Broadcasting, Pulitzer Publishing Co., St. Louis, MO; Michael J. Fiorile, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dispatch Broadcast Group, Columbus, OH; Catherine L. Hughes, Founder and Chairperson, Radio One, Inc., Lanham, MD; Philip A. Jones, Mission Hills, KS; Jerome L. Kersting, Chicago, IL; Mark P. Mays, Chairman Clear Channel Communications, San Antonio, TX; Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW Network, Burbank CA; and Cecil Walker, (Retired) Chairman and CEO, Gannett Broadcasting, Atlanta, GA.

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Sarah Skates has been a writer and editor in the music business since 2004. She is a longtime contributor to MusicRow.
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