Mediaguide Appoints Steve Lubin as CEO

Mediaguide Appoints Steve Lubin as CEO

Top Music and Advertising Airplay Monitoring Service Continues Rapid Growth and Drives New Initiatives in Online / P2P Space

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mediaguide, the leading provider of digital fingerprinting technology and music airplay monitoring, announced today the appointment of Steve Lubin as chief executive officer.

The move comes as Mediaguide continues to expand its music monitoring capabilities, most recently joining forces with Intent MediaWorks, the world's largest distributor of licensed music via peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, to link monitoring of legitimate P2P with on-air / online radio play.

Currently, Mediaguide's proprietary audio fingerprinting technology and extensive radio monitoring network tracks over 200 million songs a year -- nearly 550,000 songs each day. The company serves a diverse customer base of record labels, radio networks, artist managers, individual music creators and artists, and a growing list of partners in the online and emerging licensed P2P space. It also offers the marketing / advertising community advanced capabilities for tracking airplay of radio advertising spots.

Said John LoFrumento, president and CEO of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), which co-owns Mediaguide with YES, Inc., "Since first joining ASCAP in 1997, Steve has illustrated his ability to foster successful relationships with people across multiple disciplines, continually moving Mediaguide forward. We're confident in this business- building ability, as well as in his deep understanding of how technology is driving the evolution of music consumption and airplay. We're certain he is the right person for the job."

"To have seen Mediaguide develop from the idea stage into a groundbreaking tool has been exciting," Lubin said. "I'm honored by this appointment and look forward to continuing to drive Mediaguide forward."

Lubin earned a BA in journalism from Michigan State University in 1987. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1990 with a JD and began his career with the City of New York as the Counsel to the New York City Sheriff and Special Counsel/Chief of Staff in the Department of Probation.

Lubin joined ASCAP in 1997 as an internal consultant, then was appointed to oversee a staff of five as acting legal counsel in the Estates and Claims Department handling publisher transfers, intellectual property and contractual issues.

By 1998, he was managing a staff of 40 responsible for distributing annual royalties received from 40 international territories, amounting in excess of $135 million.

In 1999, he was appointed assistant vice president/chief of staff, providing counsel and advice on all organizational and strategic matters including legal and legislative issues, technology transactions, licensing agreements and international affairs.

In 2001, Lubin was named vice president of ASCAP's Enterprises Group, which was responsible for managing the financing, research, development and launch of Mediaguide.

About Mediaguide

Mediaguide's proprietary digital fingerprinting technology monitors over 2,500 radio stations across the United States 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -- that's more than the combined number of stations monitored by its closest competitors.

It is the first and only company to electronically monitor college, non- commercial and commercial radio stations. That combination gives Mediaguide the unique ability to provide airplay information that had been available only to and about commercial mainstream artists to include self-released and independent artists, and those who want to discover and support them.

The Mediaguide Monitor(TM) platform provides music industry professionals, artists, songwriters and radio station directors with online, real-time access to the most comprehensive and cost effective radio airplay information available. Learn more about Mediaguide at http://www.mediaguide.com/.

Source: Mediaguide

CONTACT: Jennifer Kronstain of CooperKatz & Co. for Mediaguide,
+1-212-455-8016, jkronstain@cooperkatz.com

Web site: http://www.mediaguide.com/

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