online.wsj.com - 6/12/2008
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A fierce battle has broken out among top executives at Live Nation Inc. over the concert-promotion company's ambitious strategy to reshape the struggling music industry by making wide-ranging but expensive deals with artists such as Madonna and Jay-Z. The battle is over the limits of that strategy. Live Nation has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to a handful of performers in return ...
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The Closing Bell
Pollstar —
... shows no sign of slowing down, with a full plate of summer shows in the U.S. and Europe. Link-O-Rama
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Trouble in the Promised Land
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... The Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith has an article that just went up about executive in-fighting at Live Nation over its strategy of signing top artists to top-dollar, multi-rights deals. Give it a read. ...
Internal War Over 360 Deals Could Splinter Live Nation
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily —
... Rumors of a civil war at concert giant Live Nation are reaching a fever pitch as differing ideologies among two of the company’s top-ranking executives could splinter the industry giant. On one side of the conflict is Live Nation’s chairman Michael Cohl, who is eager to sign another fifteen artists to all-encompassing 360 deals like the ones ...
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International News: Media company nabs Madonna documentary -- Swiss media company Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has beefed up its lineup with a slew of acquisitions, including Madonna's Berlinale screener "Filth & Wisdom," from Katapult Films, as ...
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