****10 Tag'' a BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT: PAGE 51
$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) Z04£-L0906 V3 H3V39 91101 V t 3AV W13 04LE 0911 9Zi Z (,jnjrjrjnntjjjnjnjjnjnrjnrjjrjnjnrjjnjtjj005Z£Ó33TTÓOA1tJOW 959 0919 tZ00W34L2339L0906t 906 1I9I0-£ ******* TA3J11X9t THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWIEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT REACHING 110 COUNTRIES NOVEMBER 21, 1998 THERE'S A NEW SOUND FOR THE SEASON... "Unigram' Takes Shape, But Details Unresolved V:Awn/.l-CJGf/Ief,;/I2 A Billboard staff report. The broad strokes may have been The switch has not been finalized, through" in December (Billboard, painted, but none of the lines has says a senior PolyGram executive, Nov 14). l%')Gr2P/.lIeß'i NEW YORK -While the proposed been filled in yet, says one executive but "it has essentially been agreed." "No final decisions have been involved in the consolidation process. Paul McGuinness of Dublin -based made," says Universal Music "Strikingly original." master plan to consolidate PolyGram Management says, "We do spokesman Bob Bernstein, who -- People and the Universal Music Group In fact, some of the senior label exec- Principle (UMG) into one company has been utives who are upset by how not know as of now where declines further comment. "...the best selling album of the season." revealed via press reports in advance their new roles are being certain players are going to Rank and file employees, who have --NT Times of official word, the thousands of defined in the consolidated end up. This is by no means been anxious since the deal was first details needed to make the scheme company are said to be lob- RSAL done and dusted." announced in mid -May to see how the "Amazing...powerful..." work are still being sorted out, accord- bying to overturn some of The relationship between two companies will be fitted togeth- --Scott Shannon/WPLJ ing to executives at both companies.
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