Nashville City Paper notes the opportunites ahead for Belmont University music business students to showcase their talents for a roomful of recording industry executives at the upcoming National Association of Recording Merchandisers convention in San Diego.
FOX News Anchor/Correspondent to Speak at Belmont
FOX News Channel correspondent Brian Wilson will speak at Belmont University Monday, February 23, as part of the university’s ongoing New Century Journalism Speakers Series.
The event is free and open to the public and the news media. Journalists, educators and students are invited and encouraged to attend. Wilson is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. in the Neely auditorium.
Boulevard, New Student-Run Art Gallery and Design Business, Opens at Belmont University
Belmont University announces the grand opening of Boulevard, an art consignment gallery and design studio run by university students and located in new university-built retail space fronting Belmont Boulevard. Boulevard opens Friday, Feb. 20, and invites the media and public to a celebratory open house from 5
Belmont’s New International Business Program Praised
The Tennessean reports on the launch of the new undergraduate program in International Business at Belmont University. U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander spoke at a luncheon at the Massey Business Center boardroom honoring the launch of the new program.
Just down the hill from Belmont University are Music Row record labels owned by British, French, German and Japanese companies. Not far down Interstate 24 is the Nissan automobile manufacturing plant, another Japanese-owned operation. They’re all signs of Tennessee’s place in an increasingly global economy, meaning Belmont’s new international business major will be an important tool for the state in years to come, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and school officials said yesterday.
Just down the hill from Belmont University are Music Row record labels owned by British, French, German and Japanese companies. Not far down Interstate 24 is the Nissan automobile manufacturing plant, another Japanese-owned operation. They’re all signs of Tennessee’s place in an increasingly global economy, meaning Belmont’s new international business major will be an important tool for the state in years to come, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and school officials said yesterday.Changes Coming to Belmont’s Student-Run Record Label
Changes are ahead for Acklen Records, the student-run record label at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, reports the Nashville City Paper today.
After languishing for years with no budget, Belmont UniversityTrain Rolls Faster for Josh Turner
Billboard magazine has taken note of rising country music star – and Belmont University graduate – Josh Turner, whose song Long Black Train is rising up the country charts. In the story, which notes that Turner is the only new artist who debuted in 2003 to have the debut album go “gold” so far. Gold certification is awarded to albums that sell at least 500,000 copies. Turner describes the writing of the song, which he wrote while still a student at Belmont in 1999…
Radio/TV Celeb Sean Hannity Coming to the Curb
Popular radio talk show host and FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity is bringing his “Hannitization Tour 2004” to Belmont University’s Curb Center, Friday, March 12th. Hannity Sean will speak at 6:30 p.m. that day and then sign copies of his new book, Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism. WLAC-AM, the radio station that broadcasts Hannity’s show in the Nashville market, says tickets will cost $15 and $20, and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19th at Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.com.
Quoted: Thom Storey
Dr. Thom Story, chairman of the Media Studies department at Belmont University, is quoted in this front-page story in today’s Nashville City Paper about the acquisition of two newspaper in the Nashville suburbs of Franklin and Murfreesboro by Gannett, owner of the The Tennessean.
Reporter to Speak on Urban Journalism at Belmont
Urban affairs reporter Clyde Hughes of The Toledo Blade will speak at Belmont University on Wednesday, Feb. 18, on doing urban Journalism in the digital age, as part of the university’s ongoing New Century Journalism Speakers Series. Hughes has worked as a staff writer and sports reporter at The Blade since November, 1989. He founded the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association in 1990. It is the local affiliate of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Quoted: Don Cusic (Again)
Donald F. Cusic, professor of music business at Belmont University, was quoted at length in a story in the Sunday, Feb. 15 edition of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper about the cost of music CDs for consumers, and the industry trends at work in a recent announcement by Universal Universal Music Group that it would cut prices for its CDs. The story explores why prices at the retail level seem not to have come down.
