Sony/ATV Promotes Peter Brodsky to General Counsel and Executive VP of Business Affairs

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Sony/ATV Music Publishing has promoted Peter Brodsky to general counsel to compliment his longtime role as executive vp, business affairs. In the expanded role, Brodsky will oversee the company’s global business strategy and all legal matters, as well as major catalog acquisitions and North American digital strategies.

May 24, the Sunday before Memorial Day, the New York Times devoted its customary patriotic-image-filled front page to a stark black and white list of names to mark the “grim milestone” of “incalculable loss” as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States approaches 100,000.

Bill Small, the former Washington bureau chief for CBS News and president of NBC News, died Sunday in a New York hospital after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced. He was 93.

Since the advent of the Hot 100 publisher rankings in the first quarter of 2019, Sony/ATV and Universal Music Publishing Group have been fighting fiercely for market share with the former coming out on top three out of the last four times.

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