Industry Ink Tuesday (4/12)

Stacey Lee

iV Group has hired Stacey Lee as Creative Facilitator to work with new agency partners and manage client projects. Previously, Lee was a music supervisor and a music production supervisor for ?lm and television in Los Angeles, working on major network series including The West Wing and Friday Night Lights. Lee also worked as Senior Account Executive for DMI Music & Media Solutions, where she created custom audio branding solutions for clients ranging from Target to General Mills. Under the direction of CEO Steve Keller, iV Group provides strategic audio branding for a wide range of global agencies and brands. Lee can be reached at slee@ivgroup.cc or 615-320-1444.

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CMT’s first scripted series Working Class has been canceled according to a note on the show’s official Facebook page. The first season finale was April 1. The show’s star Melissa Peterman will still host new episodes of The Singing Bee.

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The GMA Dove Awards are following suit of other major awards shows and offering fan voting for select categories this year. Fans can vote here for the Artist of the Year and New Artist of the Year categories before the end of today (4/12). Those who vote will be entered to win a trip to the Dove Awards in Atlanta, GA on Wednesday, April 20. The awards show will be televised on GMC on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. ET.

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The Songwriter Agency has signed Richie McDonald and Bryan White for booking representation. McDonald scored numerous hits as the front man and principal songwriter for Lonestar. White hit the top of the country charts four times and received awards from the CMA, ACM and Grammys. The Songwriter Agency is headed by Paul Compton, Randy Harrell and Rod Parkin. For booking, contact Harrell at Randy@thesongwriteragency.com or 904-437-8463.

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BMI has entered a partnership with Sony’s new multi-platform streaming digital music service “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity.” With the agreement, Music Unlimited can stream the more than 6.5 million musical compositions in the BMI repertoire.

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Publishing executives Dave Durocher and Steve Toland, have partnered with marketing executive Jason Collins to launch one-stop sync licensing outfit Splother. Splother’s content will be selected by music industry executives, offering a simple “click to pay” solution for licensing music for film, television, advertising, video games and more. Splother launches April 15, 2011 at splother.com.

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Professor and exec Paul Allen has written the 2nd edition of Artist Management for the Music Business (Focal Press). Allen’s book includes artist manager profiles, a template for an artist career plan, and samples of major contract sections for artist management and record deals.

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New Cuts of Bluegrass has launched out of Franklin, TN delivering the latest releases from the bluegrass world to radio stations, DJs and programmers nationwide on one disc. The service compiles new song releases from major and independent labels and ships the discs to over 450 traditional and internet radio stations as well as satellite broadcasters. Contact them at 615-294-6536? or info@newcutsofbluegrass.com.