New ABC series for the 2011-12 season are:

 “Apartment 23,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Good Christian Belles,” “Last Man Standing,” “Man Up,” “Missing,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Pan Am,” “Revenge,” “The River,” “Scandal,” “Suburgatory” and “Work It."

Returning shows:

“America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “The Bachelor,” “Body of Proof,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” “Happy Endings,” “Secret Millionaire,” “Shark Tank” and “20/20” join previously announced returning series “Castle,” “Cougar Town,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family” and “Private Practice.” “Saturday Night College Football” also returns.

Andrea von Foerster has done music supervision for film, television and online projects for the last twelve years.  Credits include music documentaries such as Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme, Mayor Of The Sunset Strip and The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights as well as independent films such as (500) Days Of Summer, It’s Kind of A Funny Story and most recently From Prada To Nada.  Television work includes The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy and Dollhouse and numerous MTV shows such as Run’s House and Life of Ryan. She is currently working on the studio features Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (New Line Cinema) and Chronicle (20th Century Fox), the independent features Brothers & Sisters and Highland Park and the TV shows Modern Family (ABC) and Apt. 23 (ABC).

As Vice President of A&R for Sony Music Nashville, Jim Catino has been instrumental in the signing and development of many country artists with Sony Music Nashville’s four labels – BNA, Columbia, RCA, and Arista Nashville.  Catino is currently responsible for the day to day A&R for such stars as Brad Paisley, Chris Young, Chuck Wicks, and Jerrod Niemann. He has been with the company since 2001.

For seven years prior, Catino’s previous experience in the music business included posts at DreamWorks Music Publishing, Giant Records, and MCA Music Publishing.  At each company, he worked closely with songwriters and secured copyrights.

A native of Cleveland, OH, Jim Catino graduated from Belmont University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Music Business. 

Catino and his wife Molly and daughters Katy and Kelly reside in Brentwood, TN.

About Sony Music Nashville

Sony Music Nashville includes its four country label operations – RCA, Columbia, BNA and Arista Nashville – and Provident Music Group, one of the world’s leading Christian music companies.  Sony Music Nashville is a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

Sony Music Entertainment is a global recording company with a current roster that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. It is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre, including American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, BNA Records, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Day 1, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, MASTERWORKS, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Roc Nation, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Gospel Music Group, and Volcano Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. 

Jon Ernst is a much sought after, L.A. based, composer and music supervisor. An accomplished singer-songwriter, Jon’s television career began as “Piano boy,” the on-camera musical director of the classic MTV game show “Singled Out.” Jon was Music Supervisor on MTV’s mega-hit “The Hills” and its spin-off “The City,” and has worked in that capacity on many other shows, including “Celebrity Circus” (NBC), “Nashville” (Fox), “Laguna Beach” (MTV), and recently, “The Electric Barbarellas (MTV).”  His  latest projects are “The World According to Paris Hilton”(Oxygen) and “LA Ink” (TLC)

As a composer and songwriter, Jon scored most episodes of VH1’s legendary “Behind the Music,” as well as the syndicated hit “Ex- Treme Dating,” and has licensed many original songs for television and film placements. A native of Chicago, Jon studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a graduate of the University of Florida

Harry and I attended this session at the Hall Of Fame - Music Supervisors Panel and Doug Waterman from American Songwriter Magazine did an excellent job capturing the highlights. We wanted to share this with you.