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Pricewaterhouse-Coopers predicts that spending on entertainment and media industry around the globe will surpass $1.1 trillion in 2003, rising by 3.7 percent from its 2002 level: The firm forecasts that, spurred by a 30% CAGR in broadband, growth opportunities for television distribution, videogames, Internet access and home video will also …

Coalition of Independent Music Stores quotes Mojo Nixon.

DVDs now the kid’s format of choice, and TV cartoon series are out in abundance: Only recently ”have we started seeing a significant amount of children’s programming coming to DVD,” says Jan Saxton, an analyst with Adams Media Research. ”It’s gotten hot.” Indeed, Paramount last year began releasing DVDs of …

With Hillary Clinton’s book “wildly popular” and the new Harry Potter book right around the corner, things are looking up for everyone associated with the book trade: The publication of “Living History,” the memoir of the Democratic U.S. Senator from New York and former First Lady, has sparked some record-busting …

There was a time in the ’80s when I was absolutely obsessed with Bill James’ vision of baseball and thought his creative statistical insights into the REAL game had the ring of TRUTH. His insights and persistence have finally seeped into the official basball world, as evidenced by Michael Lewis’ …

The MCA label brand is going away, along with a goodly number of employees: The restructuring of MCA Records and the move to eliminate the MCA brand began Monday, when about one-third of the label’s staffers were let go, sources said. The cuts had been expected. A spokeswoman for Interscope …

Cher’s “Farewell” tour goes on and on: With a new round of shows recently put on sale, Cher continues to extend her North American “Living Proof — The Farewell Tour.” The year-old trek now extends to the end of August, with more cities yet to be announced, according to promoter …

The grind of Idol made film a breeze for Clarkson and Guarini: “From Justin to Kelly”, a 20th Century Fox movie musical about two students who fall in love on spring break in Miami, is set to open nationwide on June 20. The movie went from conception to completion in …

I tend to avert my eyes from Africa as it seems to be an endless boiling cesspool of disease, corruption, incompetence, greed, stupidity, blood feud violence. The constant demand for emergency relief seems money down a bottomless pit of despair – I admit to full-blown compassion fatigue. Yet we need …

Somewhere between this nightmare and our own, different one, lies the answer: If hell had a special section reserved for recording industry executives, it would probably look a lot like Tepito. The Mexico City neighborhood is a mile and a half of exuberant, unabashed intellectual-property piracy: thousands of people eddying …