LeMone Upped to Senior VP at ASCAP

Shawn LeMone, head of the film and TV department at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, has been named senior VP of membership, still reporting to executive VP John Titta.

LeMone continues to head up TV and film but adds musical theater and cabaret to his oversight.

ASCAP licenses and promotes music and collects and disburses royalties.

LeMone has attracted some top composers to the licensing organization, according to ASCAP, including David Vanacore (Survivor, Apprentice) and Jeff Lippencott (MasterChef, Shark Tank).

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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.