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...with nearly 20 Japanese and European companies, including Plessey in Britain and Matsushita in Japan. Of course, Magnavox, a subsidiary of North American Philips, has not been idle. Sony has a license to use Magnavox's videodisc technology, and the U.S. company also has a longstanding deal with MCA, the parent of Universal Pictures, to make its discs...
ROCK The Who, Who's Next (MCA, 1971). "Meet the new boss/ Same as the old boss." The once and future rock band...
...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...