The National Association of Broadcasters announced today Island Records’ multi-platinum artist Melissa Etheridge will perform at the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show on Thursday, September 20 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. The highlight event, sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is part of the 2012 Radio Show, produced by the NAB and the Radio Advertising Bureau.

Scott Borchetta, president and CEO of Big Machine Label Group, will participate in a Radio Show session entitled "The Relationship Between Music and Radio…We Need Each Other." Borchetta was instrumental in developing the business model for the recent groundbreaking deal struck with Clear Channel in which the largest owner of U.S. radio stations has agreed to pay sound-recording performance royalties to Big Machine.