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- <text id=89TT2676>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Rocking All Over the World
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- <p> The fanfare had barely quieted down after Sony's buyout of
- Columbia Pictures when the Japanese were at it again. Last week
- Japan's largest communications concern, Fujisankei, paid $150
- million to buy a 25% stake in Britain's hottest record company,
- Virgin Music Group. Fujisankei's holding is the biggest
- Japanese share in any British company. The deal will give
- Fujisankei, which owns the daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun and
- a music and video company called Pony Canyon, entree to the
- West. Says joint chairman Hiroaki Shikanai: "We want to dispatch
- our thoughts and our culture to the world."
- </p>
- <p> Virgin founder and chairman Richard Branson has similar
- ideas about Japan, where his company could market records by
- such stars as Phil Collins, Paula Abdul and Ziggy Marley.
- Branson, 39, said the deal will "provide a springboard for our
- ambitions to become the world's No. 1 music group."
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- </body></article>
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