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Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 12 Aug 2008 12:52 PM PST
Warner Music continues to push beyond recorded music… the struggling label has taken a majority stake in Get In, a Spanish artist management firm, according to Reuters. Terms of the…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 07 Aug 2008 09:08 AM PST
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) reported better than expected profits this morning, helped in part by solid digital growth. In its 10-Q, the company provides some detail on its investment…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 07 Aug 2008 05:30 AM PST
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group’s Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the music industry—or…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 07 Aug 2008 04:50 AM PST
Considering the wider decline of the traditional music industry, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) had a pretty good quarter, as the company’s Q2 net loss narrowed to $9 million from…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 29 Jul 2008 09:54 AM PST
Dan Pelson, the SVP of Global Consumer Marketing at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), has left the company and joined back as the CEO of music sharing service uPlayMe, again.…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 08 May 2008 04:22 AM PST
Another challenging quarter for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which has suspended its dividend in the name of “financial flexibility.” The label announced quarterly revenue of $800 million, up 2…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 27 Mar 2008 02:41 PM PST
Former Geffen Records’ digital chief Jim Griffin has been hired by Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to head up the company’s efforts to offer unlimited access to online music in…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 25 Feb 2008 12:14 PM PST
The official word is out that Alex Zubillaga will be leaving as the head of digital strategy for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and, with it, confirmation that Michael Nash,…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 24 Feb 2008 10:28 PM PST
The head of Warner Music Group’s (NYSE: WMG) aggressive digital music strategy is leaving, according to the Wall Street Journal. Alejandro Zubillaga, a brother-in-law of WMG Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr.,…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 15 Feb 2008 02:15 PM PST
paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is pursuing a music joint venture for MySpace—similar to Hulu, its video joint venture with NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), but with variations…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Feb 2008 11:42 AM PST
“Growth, particularly mobile, remained on a slower trajectory,” Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. warned analysts and investors during the earnings call for the quarter ending Dec.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Feb 2008 04:45 AM PST
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) digital revenue grew nine percent in the last three months of 2007 to $141 million. Digital now makes up 14 percent of total group revenue…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 04 Jan 2008 06:24 PM PST
The Alternative Distribution Alliance, an independent distributor owned by the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), has acquired Insound.com, the indie music lifestyle store, reports Billboard, for an undisclosed sum. The…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 09:02 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in selling music through Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store, making it…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Dec 2007 08:40 AM PST
Effective today, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) follows Universal Music Group and EMI to the DRM-free Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store. For Warner, it’s an admission that DRM-free music is…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 21 Dec 2007 12:19 PM PST
As expected, satellite radio operator XM (NSDQ: XMSR) has come to an agreement with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) pertaining to the Pioneer Inno, a receiver capable of recording songs.…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 29 Nov 2007 05:26 AM PST
As expected, the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) quarter ending Sept. 30 proved to be a challenge: The company booked revenue of $869 million, up 2 percent from last year’s…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 Nov 2007 06:23 PM PST
Another icon gets primed for online ... Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and the family of Frank Sinatra have formed 50-50 JV Frank Sinatra Enterprises. The new company integrates all…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 Nov 2007 03:56 PM PST
Planned debt offerings from EMI and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) will have to wait. FT reports that the companies had been looking to raise cash in order to pay…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 Nov 2007 09:05 PM PST
Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman has finally admitted that the record labels effectively went to war with their customers, and warned the carriers not to do the same thing. “We…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 Nov 2007 07:45 PM PST
Warner is withholding its music from the Nokia Music Store in part because of concerns its music is being traded illegally on Mosh, reports the WSJ. This was covered a…
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