MB USA FOR AFRICA DISBURSES FUNDS RIAA RESPONDS TO EXPLICIT LYRICS’ OUTCRY GUEST EDITORIAL: PAIN ERIC BEHIND THE BULLETS: METAL ACTS TAKE OVER new laces to n September 10, 1977, Cash Box introduced the unique weekly feature. New Faces To Watch. Debuting acts are universally considered the life blood of the recording industry, and over the last seven years Cash Box has been first to spotlight new and developing artists, many of whom have gone on to chart topping successes. Having chronicled the development of new talent these seven years, it gives us great pleasure to celebrate their success with our seventh annual New Faces To Watch Supplement. We will again honor those artists who have rewarded the faith, energy, committment and vision of their labels this past year. The supplemenfs layout will be in easy reference pull-out form, making it a year-round historical gudie for the industry. It will contain select, original profiles as well as an updated summary including chart histories, gold and platinum achievements, grammy awards, and revised up-to-date biographies. We know you will want to participate in this tribute, showing both where we have been and where we are going as an industry. The New Faces To Watch Supplement will be included in the August 31st issue of Cash Box, on sale August The advertising deadline is August 22nd. Reserve Advertising Space Now! NEW YORK LOS ANGELES NASHVILLE J.B. CARMICLE SPENCE BERLAND JOHN LENTZ 212-586-2640 213-464-8241 615-244-2898 9 C4SH r BOX HE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC / COIN MACHINE / HOME ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME XLIX — NUMBER 10 — August 17, 1985 C4SHBCK GUEST EDITORIAL Getting The Most From Music Video GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher By Dain Eric MARK ALBERT Are music videos promotional items or programming that TV — which constitutes a legitimate piece of programming! Vice President and General Manager should be charged for? If all record companies follow the CBS With more and more independent UHF stations going on SPENCE BERLAND lead, how many shows will remain on the the air all over the country, the record Vice President air? Are the record companies about to cut companies have a unique opportunity to off their nose to spite their face? The record create a new industry as well as a new J.B. CARMICLE Vice President company attitude seems to be that we’re medium for selling their product — both in the video business because we have to record and video. Many of these stations DAVID ADELSON be, not because we want to. And yet, if will air with new polorized antennas and Managing Editor record companies start looking at ways to stereo sound making them competitive with Research KEITH ALBERT, Manager make money from video on the retail level VHF stations. Also, don’t expect massive DARRYL LINDSEY instead of from T.V. video outlets, they just changes if the “must carry” rule is not RON ROSENTHAL STEVEN ZAP might find that they have two profitable upheld. A large percentage of cable oper- JEFFERY PLATT industries instead of one. ators will opt to continue to carry most TV Los Angeles Editorial With VCR sales expected to continue at signals in their market or risk losing yet PETER HOLDEN a feverish pace and stereo finally making more subscribers. Many cable subscribers GREGORY DOBRIN PETER BERK an impact in the T.V. marketplace, the long carry cable because it improves their STEPHEN PADGETT form video cassette market can only reception of over-the-air broadcast stations BOB SHULMAN home NADEEN TOOMEY continue to get healthier. It seems the they may have had difficulty receiving New York Editorial public is receptive to quality long forms at otherwise. LEE JESKE RUSTY CUTCHIN a retail price of $29.95. Michael Jackson’s I know of several examples where the Thriller video, or Lionel Richie, with sales Dain Eric is a radio industry veteran who announcement of the CBS charging policy Nashville Editorial/Ftesearch closely cable JOHN LENTZ, General Manager in excess of 120,000 units show that there has worked with and broad- (with the implications of other labels to BYRON C. WYNKOOP are profits to be made in this market as well cast television as former executive vice follow) changed the plans for new UHF WILLIAM R. FISHER as the pre-recorded music industry. The president and chief operating officer of station owners away from music video to PUBLICATION OFFICES NEW YORK record companies should continue to use the L.A. — based Discovery Music the more common syndication avenue. W. 58th Street, (Suite 330 5D) the vide© clip as the promotional item it Network. 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