By Aaron Gregg
AMC NETWORKS COULD CLAIM CONTROLLING STAKE IN ROBERT L. JOHNSON’s MOVIE FIRM
"Robert L. Johnson, the pioneering founder of Black Entertainment Television, faces the prospect of giving up control of RLJ Entertainment, a new-media company he started four years ago in Silver Spring, Md...."
"...Some debts apparently included royalty payments due to Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, who produced “Dark Girls,” a documentary examining “color-ism within our own community,” referring to the bias against darker skin within black communities. Their attorney, Rachel Stilwell, provided a legal document claiming that RLJ Entertainment defaulted on $7,286 worth of royalty payments...."
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Billboard's Ed Christman analyzed recent efforts by the National Association of Broadcasters to convince the Federal Communications Commission to further deregulate local AM/FM radio ownership caps. The article also highlights Rachel's arguments on behalf of music industry groups the musicFIRST Coalition and Future of Music Coalition. The gist of comments and replay comments by musicFIRST and the Future of Music Coalition: Further consolidation at the local AM/FM level would be against the interests of the listeners, small broadcasters, and especially music creators. Read the full article here:
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