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Come, Quick! There's Something Wrong With Mr. Bronfman!

World War II was won by the Allied forces, not only because we were right, but also because we had more men and women, more weaponry and more money, and that money in turn would train more men and...

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Actually, You're Taxing Our Intelligence …

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if...

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No Market Seen for Guitar Hero "Bronfman" Edition

It wasn’t very long ago that Warner Music Group boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. was demanding a share of Apple’s iPod revenue and calling for mandatory peer-to-peer filtering and taxes on recordable media and...

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Warner Music Boss Edgar Bronfman Wins One: Publishing Exec Dick Snyder Loses...

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is both a music company CEO and in a fight against Google (GOOG). So he needs good news wherever he can find it. Today a New York Court is helping out: It has ruled against former...

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EMI's Owners Suffer a $1.6 Billion Case of Buyer's Remorse

A lot of people couldn’t understand why Guy Hands, the private equity guy who bought EMI Music Group in the summer of 2007, was willing to pay so much for the music company. Now he says he agrees with...

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Will Britney Get a Bailout?

Call me a crusty skeptic, but I think it’d be hard for entertainers–some of whom are already ostentatiously wealthy–to get Washington to help them out in the best of times. So my gut is that there’s...

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Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff: How to Make Money While Music Becomes...

As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he’s never had to placate Washington, D.C.,...

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D7 Interview: Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Say MySpace Needs to Innovate

A couple of years ago, MySpace was the hottest thing on the Web. But that was a couple of years ago. Now the social network has gone cold: It is losing audience to Facebook and other sites and may...

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BusinessWeek's Pitch to Investors: Buy Us, Then Fire Us

How do you sell a business magazine that lost $43 million last year? Convince buyers that they could fire 20 percent of the staff without missing a beat. That’s part of the pitch that Evercore Partners...

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Former Time Warner Boss Dick Parsons Gets Back in the Media Business

There are very good odds that there are going to be some very big deals happening in the media world in the next year or so. So this move makes sense: Former Time Warner (TWX) CEO Dick Parsons is...

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Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.

After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple–the ability to raise prices on their songs. Last April, iTunes introduced a “variable pricing” scheme,...

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Warner Music: We Can't Wait for Google Music! (But We Can't Say That Out Loud)

Warner Music Group saw revenues drop last quarter, while losses increased. Meanwhile its digital business, which is supposed to be its growth engine, bumped up only 2 percent. Warner (WMG) has the same...

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Warner Music Still Pining for Google. But What About Spotify?

The good news for Warner Music Group: Digital revenue growth, anemic earlier this year, has perked up a bit. The bad news: It’s still not enough to counter dropping CD sales, which continue to account...

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QOTD: Spotify Gets a Pat on the Head, But Not a Deal

We do see Spotify, and services like Spotify, as ever-more meaningful for our results. Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. during this morning’s earnings call, making his most encouraging noises...

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Meet Warner Music's New Owner (For Now): Len Blavatnik

Warner Music Group has a new owner: Len Blavatnik, a Russian-born billionaire who already owned part of the music label. Next question: Will Blavatnik keep his new purchase, carve it up, or try to...

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Warner Music Group Gets a New Boss

Warner Music Group, which has new ownership, now has new management, too. Stephen Cooper, a board member at Access Industries, the investment group that bought Warner this summer, is now chief...

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Announcing D: Dive Into Media, Featuring Viacom, New Yorker, Warner Music,...

It’s a heady time for the media business: A swirl of change means there are more ways than ever to make and distribute words, music and moving pictures. And it’s easier than ever to fling them around...

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More Moguls for D: Dive Into Media -- Clear Channel, Legendary Pictures and...

We’re about three months away from D: Dive Into Media, which means it’s time to show a bit more leg and tell you about more of the speakers we’ll have joining us onstage. For our first-ever media...

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Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley, Up Close and Personal: YouTube CEO Salar...

Hollywood and Google have been circling each other for years, as each side tries to figure out what to make of the other. Now they’re finally starting to link up in a serious way, via YouTube’s new...

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Game On! ESPN's New Boss, John Skipper, Debuts at D: Dive Into Media.

Time to introduce another D: Dive Into Media speaker, and this one’s very timely: John Skipper, the new head of cable sports giant ESPN. Disney CEO Bob Iger tapped Skipper to take over his company’s...

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Bronfman Steps Down as Warner Music Chairman

Edgar Bronfman Jr. will step down as chairman of Warner Music Group, effective Jan. 31, he said in a memo to employees, but will remain on the board of the world’s No. 3 recorded-music company. A...

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More Stars for D: Dive Into Media -- Jason Kilar, Dick Costolo and Martha...

The D: Dive into Media conference in January is already packed with big-name speakers. But we’ve found room for a few more: We’re adding the leaders of Hulu, Twitter and Martha Stewart Living to our...

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An Exit Interview With Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Today is a big day for Edgar Bronfman Jr. — his last as chairman of Warner Music Group. A fixture in the music industry since the mid-1990s, Bronfman led WMG during a period of profound tumult,...

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