From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #28 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Wednesday, February 10 1999 Volume 02 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FWD: From Robearto part 2 [Songbird22@aol.com] FWD: An email from Robearto (re: the merger and Emm) part I. [Songbird22@] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:37:45 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: FWD: From Robearto part 2 Part 2 of an e-mail from roberto@soundcheck.ca - -- the dramatic lowering of payroll is supposed to give the whole universal = group a financial advantage, making them more competitive, faster to react to = market changes yada yada etc etc, but it remains to be seen if these people will simply be overwhelmed and = unable to=20 promote their artists properly causing all the universal labels to lose = market share to the other corporate giants like wea (american), emi(brittish), sony(japanese) or = that german company=20 who is the other major label but no one can remember their damn name. we wouldnt want that to happen because=20 a) time-warner is a disgustingly humongous american company that needs = some serious competition and a few bitch-slaps b) if one of these 5 major record companies has to be bigger and badder = than all the rest it might as well be the one owned by canadians eh? c) my favourite bands like big sugar, emm gryner and mgb would have = lower record sales and less $$$ so i'm rooting for universal. after all seagrams should be rewarded for = taking on their noble mission of trying to make the music industry more canadian. they had to = sell their $8 billion stake in the chemical-mongering dupont to do it ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:36:31 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: FWD: An email from Robearto (re: the merger and Emm) part I. this was too long to go through so I have to forward it in 2 parts: - -- hello.. it would seem that emm is not being dropped from mercury us. i think that because: in the midst of universal music group's = restructuring=20 they have released the names of some of the people in charge of some=20 of the different departments. marketing for emm will be handled by ivar hamilton publicity will be done by erik hodgson. it will be interesting to see how this will work out. universal music group is now the biggest entertainment company in the = world accounting for 24% of worldwide record sales. the main structure is mca,interscope,polygram,geffen, A&M all across the conglomerate (not just within the polygram labels)=20 from warehouse managers to financial planners, shitloads of people have already been fired and many more will receive = pink slips the idea being that (for instance) one person can handle the marketing = for 4 associated=20 labels (ivar hamilton now does mercury us, motown, def jam, capricorn = and universal records as well as domestic acts like mgb and big sugar who were an A&M signing = i think) the silver lining is that emm becomes a special project of ivar = hamilton, receiving individual attention here like these other domestic acts while = maintaining=20 the benefits of being a US signing. ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #28 **********************************