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...Sony/ATV, Universal and Kobalt) and Performance Rights Organisations (PROs ie collection agencies such as ASCAP and BMI)....
...Sony’s 100m PS5 targetDespite greater competition for gamers’ attention, Sony believes the forthcoming PlayStation 5 can sell 100m units just like the PS4....
...The pennies add up: Sony/ATV makes revenue of about $600m annually; Mr Bandier said it was on track for its “best financial year yet”....
.../ATV, the sector’s biggest publisher....
...Sony/ATV, like other parts of Sony, was rocked by the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment at the end of 2014....
.../ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...Sony Music, the world’s second-largest music group, has not finalised a licensing deal with the service. The labels declined to comment....
...“Sony/ATV is a great company and the estate owns half of it but no one, not even Sony/ATV, will ever own Mijac while John McClain and I remain in charge,” said John Branca, coexecutor with Mr McClain....
...After the deal closed, he ran Sony ATV’s international publishing business, helping oversee the integration under Marty Bandier, Sony ATV chief executive....
...Andrew Stalbow, Rovio’s executive vice president for strategic partnerships, told the FT that Angry Birds Toons were “inspired by Tom and Jerry” and would be “Looney Tunes for the mobile generation… fun...
...EMC worked on the recent sale of Paris Saint-Germain football club and advises sports leagues on media rights negotiations: it also structured Sony ATV’s $300m of debt financing for its 50 per cent stake...
...Sony ATV, Sony’s publishing joint venture with Michael Jackson’s estate, is expected to bid for EMI Music Publishing alone....
...Some larger publishers such as Sony ATV had held back from the Bug auction for fear of spending their firepower before second round bids are due for EMI, which are expected to value the UK music company...
...Sony, which owns the Sony Music Entertainment record label group and half of Sony ATV music publishing, had teamed up with Ron Perelman, the investor, and Guggenheim Partners on a possible bid, people familiar...
...Bankers and analysts expressed scepticism about private equity bidders’ ability to compete with a “strategic” bidder from the music industry, such as BMG or Sony ATV....
...They also named Permira, the UK buy-out house, and Sony ATV, the publishing joint venture between Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson, as among those showing active interest....
...Auctions often pit private equity financial modellers (a role played here by Platinum Equity and Poju Zabludowicz’s Tamares group), against strategic synergy-seekers (represented by Sony, which would find...
...Mr Jackson’s stake in the Sony ATV joint venture with Sony is his largest asset, worth an estimated $500m-$1bn, but it is heavily encumbered by about $300m of loans from Barclays, and Mr Jackson received...
...“Michael was a smart businessman,” said Martin Bandier, chairman & chief executive of Sony/ATV, Jackson’s music publishing joint venture with Sony....
...Through Sony ATV, a 50-50 joint venture with Sony, Jackson controls the rights to the Beatles catalogue as well as songs from artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and Lady Gaga....
...The question now is, how will he take Sony/ATV forward? Mr Stringer, he says, publicly pledged at a recent gathering of Sony/ATV executives that he was prepared to bankroll further acquisitions....
...The recent deal to bring out a Beatles game by next Christmas, a likely boost for EMI and Sony ATV, the rights holders, shows that most music companies recognise this is driving demand....
...Martin Bandier, chief executive of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which controls more than 200 Beatles copyrights, said the exposure on American Idol had yielded a number of inquiries, including from mobile...
...Sony has an option to buy part of his stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, their joint venture that owns publishing rights to the Beatles’ music....
...The recent Gulf investments in financial institutions, and in AMD, the US chip company, and Sony of Japan have not raised too many hackles....
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