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• Music TV network CMT will launch a new feed serving the Pacific and Mountain regions, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. The new Western feed launches Sept. 10.



Pioneering concert promoter Jack Boyle, who sold his Cellar Door Companies to SFX Entertainment—now Clear Channel Entertainment (CCE)—in 1998 for $106 million to become CCE's music division chairman, will curtail his activities in CCE's Washington, D.C., offices and become chairman emeritus. Stopping short of saying he is semi-retiring, Boyle tells Billboard: "I'll still be available if they need me, but I'm going to get totally out of the day-to-day. I'm not mad at anybody, but I'm 67, and there are other things I want to do. I walked out on my own, in my own time, and not many people can say that."



• Def Jam founder Russell Simmons has been appointed to the board of directors of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a 3-D technology development company in which he has also become a shareholder. Brilliant Digital creates interactive, animated music videos for the Web.

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