Word: mca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bestselling items, however, was the genuine article. Infinity Records, an appropriately named division of MCA, last week released 1 million copies of Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong. The recording was made in June when the Pope returned to Cracow, Poland, to take part in the sacred-music festival he had founded eleven years earlier as Karol Cardinal Wojtyla. When he sang along spontaneously with the Sacrosong singers, the Pope's voice was captured on a master tape that MCA obtained. Rock stations last week were playing the Pope in the company...
...simply "rearrange" their viewing hours, said Judge Ferguson; they will "play their tapes when there is nothing on television they wish to see and no movie they want to attend." Moreover, the court noted, production of television programs by the plaintiffs, Universal City Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of MCA Inc., and Walt Disney Productions, "is more profitable than it has ever been ... there was no concrete evidence to suggest that the Betamax will change the studios' financial picture." However, MCA, now beginning to market its own video discs, prerecorded shows also intended for the home screen, was worried...
...original children's shows, reruns of highly rated public-broadcasting programs (e.g., The Ascent of Man) that may not have been seen in some areas that cable now reaches. Superstations, however, are running into furious opposition from conventional broadcasters and their allies in the sports and entertainment worlds. MCA-Universal and Paramount are balking at selling any of their TV shows to Turner's Atlanta station, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are threatening to withdraw broadcast rights from KTTV if that Los Angeles station also goes on the satellite...
Movie companies, which will get a royalty of between $2 and $3 for every disc sold, have been happy to supply films. "It's a new market we cannot afford to ignore," says Norman Glenn of MCA, the big Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course...
...about $80 million, while RCA has spent more than $50 million-both companies have moved with caution. Indeed, RCA announced that it would go ahead with its system only after Magnavox began test-marketing in December. Magnavox, for its part, took the plunge because it had an agreement with MCA that it would launch videodiscs no later than 1978. Both players will be nationally available in 1980 when, despite Magnavox's test launches this year, RCA's greater number of dealers and lower price tag may give that company a marketing edge...