Donald Thurston elected board chairman at BMI Annual Meeting; Preston re-elected president and CEO.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1994--BMI directors, at their annual meeting, Wednesday elected Donald A. Thurston, president of Berkshire Broadcasting Co. Inc. in North Adams, Mass., as chairman of BMI's board. Thurston succeeds James G. Babb, who served as chairman of the board for the past two years. Frances W. Preston was re-elected president and chief executive officer of the performing rights organization. Elected by the company's shareholders as directors earlier in the day were: James G. Babb of Outlet Communications Inc., Cranston, R.I.; Joseph A. Carriere of Withers withers the region over the backline where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapulae lie just below the skin. fistulous withers see fistulous withers. Broadcasting, Grand Junction, Colo.; Harold C. Crump of KSTP-TV, St. Paul, Minn.; Ken J. Elkins of Pulitzer Broadcasting, St. Louis, Mo.; J. Clinton Formby of The Formby Stations, Hereford, Texas; Philip A. Jones of Meredith Broadcasting, Des Moines, Iowa “Des Moines” redirects here. For other uses, see Des Moines (disambiguation). Des Moines (pronounced /dɪˈmɔɪn/ in English, ; former broadcasting executive Clifford M. Kirtland, Jr.; Francis A. Martin III of U.S. Media Group, San Francisco; Frank E. Melton of TV-3 Inc., Jackson, Miss.; Frances W. Preston, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. ; former broadcasting executive George V. Willoughby; K. James Yager of Benedek Broadcasting Corp., Rockford, Ill.; as well as Donald A. Thurston. Berkshire Broadcasting Co. Inc. owns and operates radio stations WNAW-AM and WMNB-FM in North Adams and WSBS-AM in Great Barrington, Mass. Thurston's career in community broadcasting spans almost a half century. He is a former chairman of the board of the National Association of Broadcasters, a past president of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and a former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Cable Television Commission. BMI is a music performing rights organization that collects and distributes license fees on behalf of over 100,000 songwriters and composers and 50,000 music publishers with a repertoire of over 3 million works in all areas of music. Founded by a group of leading radio executives in 1939, BMI's growth and the success of its songwriters has made BMI the premiere organization in its field. Among the legendary songwriters and composers BMI represents in different musical genres are Hank Williams Sr., Dave Brubeck, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Beatles, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Antonio Carlos Jobim Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York City), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. and the Beach Boys, to name just a handful. The organization also represents such current chart-toppers as Janet Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men Boyz II Men is an American R&B/soul singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown , Babyface, Mariah Carey, Ace of Base (STIM STIM Stimulation STIM Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå STIM Star Trek Italia Magazine STIM Smart Transducer Interface Module (from IEEE standard 1451.1) STIM Security Through Interaction Modeling STIM Society to Increase Mobility ), Toni Braxton, Jon Secada, Michael Bolton, Counting Crows, Pink Floyd (PRS PRS Partnership (IRB) PRS Printer (File Name Extension) PRS Paul Reed Smith (Guitar Brand) PRS Pairs (shoe industry) ), The Cranberries (PRS), Spin Doctors and R. Kelly. The organization's pop, rock, R&B, country and jazz repertoire is unparalleled. A listing of the Top 100 singles of the rock era by Rolling Stone magazine showed BMI represented 75% of the works. Approximately 80% of the inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are represented by BMI, as are more than 80% of the Country Music Hall of Fame inductees, and more than 90% of those honored with Pioneer Awards by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. During 1994, BMI-represented songwriters won 58% of the Grammy Awards and 77% of the Country Music Awards. CONTACT: BMI, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Robbin Ahrold, 212/830-2502 |
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