July
2008
Brian welch
Friday Business Links
• A Bertelsmann supervisory board meeting is meeting to decide what to do with the company’s half of the Sony BMG joint venture. A decision is expected by the end of the month. (Billboard.biz)
• The Wall Street Journal’s Ethan Smith interviewed Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino. “If there’s anything that has been underplayed and overshadowed, there is one reason you should buy our stock or you should watch our company: It’s because we are entering the ticketing business next year.” (Wall Street Journal)
• Activision is planning a download store. The CEO of Blizzard, the new company formed by the merger of Activision and Vivendi’s game division, calls a “Guitar Hero” online platform extension “the natural evolution” of the franchise. That’ll be fun to see when it’s out. I don’t think it’s going to rival iTunes any time soon, though. (Financial Times)
• A report from the Latin America Music Conference in New York. (Miami New Times)
• Borders UK has launched its own online store. As far as music, it’s CDs only. No downloads. (Music Week)
• There was an article on a long dormant EMI archive a while back, and here’s another one. Honest Jon Records’ Mark Ainley has been going through the archive and says there are so many recordings he might start a website in order to put out the music rather than settle for fewer proper releases. “I was staggered by what we found,” he said, “in terms of the raw quality of it, the diversity of it, the condition of it and the volume of it.” (The Guardian)
• The Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC is becoming a popular place for live music. (Washington Times)
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