Concord Promotes Jim Selby to Chief Operating Officer

Channel 4 chief operating officer Keith Underwood is to leave the U.K. broadcaster at the end of this month, and will be replaced by current chief commercial officer Jonathan Allan.

After making the rounds in 2019 with his Gangalee Tour, Farruko has officially wrapped it up at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami Saturday (Jan. 25)—a night which he proclaimed as a “historic” one in his career.

By Erik Pedersen

Cuba Gooding Jr. will stand trial on groping charges this spring.

Save the Music and SongFarm.org have partnered to launch the inaugural Hometown to Hometown event in Nashville on Feb. 13. All proceeds raised from the evening will benefit new music technology programs in public high schools across the country.

Wheelhouse Group is adding a chief creative officer to its executive ranks, bringing CAA vet Eric Wattenberg aboard.

By Peter White

Eric Wattenberg, longtime CAA agent and co-head of its alternative television department, has joined producer Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Group as chief content officer.

WarnerMedia has appointed Cheryl Idell as executive vice president, chief research officer of its entertainment and direct-to-consumer divisions.

By Erik Pedersen

By Peter White

Same-sex parents should be accorded the same rights and responsibilities as opposite-sex parents

Davis Guggenheim,the Oscar-winning director behind docs He Named Me Malala and Waiting for Superman, is partnering with Jonathan King — the former production president at Participant Media— to launch Concordia Studio.The banner, launched inpartnership with Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, will develop, produce and finance nonfiction and scripted feature films. Concordia will premiere four films in theU.S.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Yola's signature mix of Nashville twang and classic R&B smolder has turned the Bristol, England, singer into one of the most acclaimed vocalists of our time. She brought all of that and more to her NPR Tiny Desk concert, filling the public radio show's cramped office studio with an arena's-worth of soul for a three-song set of tunes from her acclaimed Dan Auerbach-produced produced 2019 album Walk Through Fire.

One of Nashville’s top producers, Dave Cobb has collaborated with Jason Isbell, Bruce Springsteen, Sturgill Simpson, Zac Brown Band, Elle King, Shooter Jennings, John Prine, Jamey Johnson, and many others.

With the 2020 presidential election around the corner, Crooked Media’s popular podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It are hitting the road. Pod Save America: Live and Lovett or Leave It: Live on Tour will hit a collective 17 dates across the U.S.