MCA Music Entertainment Names Publishing President

MCA Music Entertainment Group announced that Jay Boberg is joining the company as President of MCA Music Publishing worldwide. Boberg, who was previously president of IRS Records, will be responsible for all aspects of MCA’s music publishing operations. He will be based in Los Angeles. As a record executive at IRS, his discoveries included the band R.E.M.

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