Robert Andrews
May 6, 2010 9:41 AM
Last quarter, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr scolded Apple for introducing variable track pricing too late and eagerly predicted a new wave of subscription digital music services “dwarving” the iTunes Store on which labels depend so much. This quarter, he’s full of praise for Cupertino, ahead…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2010 8:44 AM
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. couldn’t have made it more clear - the music industry wants to ween itself off its Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) dependency, and it will get do just that when iTunes comes under massive competition pressure from new unlimited and mobile services… “Digital…
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Staci D. Kramer
Aug 12, 2009 10:00 PM
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) signed on for the Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) Eos white-label social networking service in a dip-the-toe way in January. Now the label is putting the whole foot in the water by expanding its deal beyond sites for two artists to five, promising to add a dozen…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 5, 2009 9:34 AM
Warner Music Group’s earnings call for its Q109 (results post here) had precious little info on the spats that have robbed YouTube and Last.fm of WMG tracks. But CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr’s comments did suggest a thawing relationship with Apple, after WMG last year experimented with pulling tracks from iTunes…
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Staci D. Kramer
Dec 23, 2008 11:04 PM
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.‘s Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) may not be close to settling its disagreement with YouTube over music video revenue but at least he’s out from under a $100 million lawsuit. The lawsuit, a hangover from the $2.6 billion leveraged buyout of the music company from Time Warner…
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David Kaplan
Aug 7, 2008 7:30 AM
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 at least doing less worse. However, major successes came from albums by Frank Sinatra and Madonna, not exactly rising young…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 6, 2008 1:42 PM
“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. 31, 2007. But he also used his prepared remarks to talk big: “We continue to explore new business models that…
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