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Certainly they are the easiest to get on the radio-"AC" radio, that is, music biz vernacular for "adult contemporary" stations, whose regimented play lists have turned Fogerty's song for everyone into ditties for anyone. On the '60s Top 40 radio, it was possible to hear Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, the Beatles, the Four Tops and Bob Dylan all in the space of an hour. Nowadays, says Neil Bogart, president of Boardwalk Entertainment Co., "they play music for the 14-to-18 audience, the 30-to-35, the 50-to-60, or for white, black, chicano...
...industry loses 20% of its revenue just from home taping. Jack Reinstein, treasurer of Electra/Asylum/ Nonesuch Records, calculates 400 million albums were taped off the air in 1980 alone, "without any compensation to the artist, the songwriters and publishers, the musicians, the record company." Huffs Kal Rudman, professional music biz pundit: "It's grand larceny! It's outrageous...
According to researchers, about half of the conjugal commuters are in the academic world, where work schedules are flexible and jobs too scarce to turn down. But the numbers are increasing in business, politics, show biz and journalism. The education level is high-about 90% have done some graduate work. Family income tends to average $30,000 to $40,000 a year. Often the commuting comes about because the wife has reached a level at which further advancement means moving, and the husband solidly supports the move...
Consumerism goes show biz...
...syndicated to 36 stations and takes a special delight in giving TV commercials the hotfoot. There are other raisers of consumer consciousness who are just as solid-NBC's Betty Furness, or 20/20's John Stossel-but none can quite match Horowitz's zealous show-biz savvy. Looking a little like the recording secretary of the Beverly Hills Jaycees, Horowitz gets cozy with his studio audience. He answers their questions; he invites them up at show's end to check out, say, several different containers of jelly beans, all of which claim to be the White...