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Bill Abbatte at N.E.I.A. conference today in Brookline

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Lo and behold, there was supposed to be an attorney on the Future Of Music panel at the IBS in Brookline today. I kept trying to read the guy's badge, but the attorney was a no-show and the fellow in his place was...
Bill Abbatte. Good to see him. I guess he works for the school, as does Gerry Goodwin (I couldn't find
The Duke Of Madness, though). It was a great panel and the entire day-long program was a lot of fun with college radio stations from up and down the East Coast all the way out to Minnesota. I coordinate the
magazines - we had Radioworld, Radio & Records, BMI's Musicworld, Sesac Magazine, Ascap's Playback and
the BMI Newsletter (separate from Musicworld). NEIA blossommed out of the old Masscom and the former
Northeast Broadcasting School.

http://www.artinstitutes.edu/boston/
 
I've worked at that school for 3 years now.. the combined experience from the radio people there (Gerry Goodwin, Larry Miller, Len Mailloux, etc.) is enough for me to convince eager broadcast students to attend NEiA...
 
Wasn't CMJ in NYC this weekend?

I bet the kids in Boston learned more.
 
Actually, Neggy, you hit the nail on the head.

CMJ's convention ends this weekend; it split off of the IBS - which is 68 years old! This is the Boston
regional. I moderated the Record Company panel at 1 PM and Barry Marshall asked the students if anyone
was from the school: all of the people in the room were from around the East Coast and out to Minnesota,
no NEIA kids were in our room (except for one of the panelists who runs a record label).

So when it wrapped up I thanked them for coming to our event and not CMJ (though I am friendly with
the CMJ people and have a subscription, of course).

CMJ Oct 31 - Nov. 4 http://prod1.cmj.com/marathon/ Lincoln Center

refreshing that people would come from as far as Minnesota to visit Boston instead of New York when
both events were head to head. Keep in mind, this was just a regional; the CMJ was their national event
(ours is in March).

It was a really great day. We had Rick Harte from Ace Of Hartes records, Lyrical (from Mass Industry - they did the Hip-Hop Awards show at the John Hancock 6/17/06), Blaze The World, Lesley Gore's current producer in from NY - Blake Morgan, and Barry Marshall was our "7th" panelist - he moderated the panel with Bill Abbatte earlier in the day. These regional IBS conferences are rather new and they are doing quite well.
 
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