Pricing, First Sale Stir Debate Expansion of Video Music by LAURA FOTI Revenues on a Per- Transaction Basis
08120 88049GREENLYMONT00 MAR84 MONTY GREENLY 03 10 OIR NEWSPAPER 3740 ELM LONG BEACH CA 90807 A Billboard Publication The International Newsweekly Of Music & Home Entertainment March 19, 1983 $3 (U.S.) ITA SEMINAR TALKS Target Plans VIDEO Turner Cable: Pricing, First Sale Stir Debate Expansion Of Video Music By LAURA FOTI revenues on a per- transaction basis. seminar, resulting in an official ITA Despite an announcement by position calling for the repeal of the Purchase HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -The Inter - Paramount Home Video that "Air- First Sale Doctrine. As Jim Jimirro, Due Arm natior -al Tape /Disc Assn. (ITA) plane II" would be released in April president of Walt Disney Telecom- Service By JOHN SIPPEL seminar held here last week (6 -9) at a $29.95 price point, low pricing munications and an ITA board NEW YORK -Competition for was the occasion for a renewed effort generally was conceded to be merely member, put it, "There is no mar- the demographically attractive, LOS ANGELES -More than 75% by prerecorder video suppliers to experimental, not a resolution of the ketplace solution to this problem." music -oriented television viewer of the Target Stores' record /tape/ assert heir position on the First Sale rental -versus -sale problem. In fact, Jimirro has been the most out- will become even more serious this video departments will be served by Doctri ne and their dedication to the a secret vote by the ITA board of spoken of all studio representatives summer when mighty Turner Broad- an in -house purchase division by principle of participation in rental directors was made public at the (Continued on page 68) casting System joins the already 1984.
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