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Oct 19, 2011 BMI held a Latin-infused edition of its acclaimed “How I Wrote That Song” panel on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at the Beverly Hills Gibson Showroom. The timely event took place just days before the inaugural Billboard Mexican Music Awards, slated for October 27. Chart-topping songwriters Horacio Palencia, Benny Camacho, Oscar Ivan Treviño, and Pepe Garza participated in a discussion moderated… View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 Songwriters Horacio Palencia, Pepe Garza, Benny Camacho, and Oscar Ivan Treviño participate in BMI’s Regional Mexican music installment of its How I Wrote That Song panel at the Beverly Hills Gibson Showroom. View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 Former BMI President & CEO Frances Preston and legendary broadcast journalist Don West, President & CEO of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation, celebrate Preston’s inclusion in the Library of American Broadcasting’s Giants of Broadcasting 2011. View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 Pictured at the Giants of Broadcasting 2011 luncheon are Robbin Ahrold, BMI’s Michael Steinberg and Ed Oshanani, former BMI President & CEO Frances Preston, and BMI’s Fred Cannon, Mike O’Neill, Alison Smith, Phil Graham, and Richard Conlon. View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 Pictured at the Library of American Broadcasting’s Giants of Broadcasting 2011 are BMI’s Alison Smith, former BMI President & CEO Frances Preston, and Susan Davenport Austin, Chairman of the BMI Board of Directors and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation and President of the Sheridan Gospel Network. View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 Publisher Ivan Mogull, former BMI President & CEO Frances Preston, and Martin Bandier, Chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, celebrate Preston's inclusion in the 2011 Giants of Broadcasting at a reception hosted by current BMI President & CEO Del Bryant at the company's New York City headquarters. View Photo

Oct 19, 2011 BMI President & CEO Del Bryant congratulates Frances Preston, former BMI President & CEO, on her being named to the Library of American Broadcasting’s Giants of Broadcasting. View Photo

Oct 18, 2011 At the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, the Hall of Fame’s sister organization, also honored the writers of the peer-voted top ten “Songs I Wish I’d Written.” All of the songs on the list were either written or co-written by BMI writers. Pictured are (back row) BMI’s Phil Graham; NSAI’s Steve Bogard; BMI’s… View Photo

Oct 18, 2011 Pictured at the 2011 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony are BMI’s Jody Williams, honorees Thom Schuyler and David Conrad, Rondor Music’s Lance Freed, and BMI’s Bradley Collins. Schuyler was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, while Conrad received the Frances Williams Preston Mentor Award, named after BMI’s legendary former CEO. View Photo

Oct 18, 2011 Chart-topping songwriter/producer Benny Blanco (center) was unable to attend the BMI Pop Awards, so BMI’s Samantha Cox (left) and Brooke Morrow (right) brought his trio of awards to him. Blanco’s “Tik Tok” (Ke$ha), “California Gurls” (Katy Perry), and “Dynamite” (Taio Cruz) all landed in the year’s most-performed list. View Photo