CBS records, every mention
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SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 52:49 David Rosenthal CBS records around the world is signing all these artists and producing the music, and this is just distributing it in Japan.
- ▶ 1:28:55 David Rosenthal and the like about selling and the folks who are running CBS records at Columbia records, they're not too happy about this.
- ▶ 1:29:13 David Rosenthal Would you be interested in actually buying all of CBS records?
- ▶ 1:29:35 David Rosenthal Like, Sony is a worldwide, large, global brand, so it's not unreasonable to think Sony could buy all of CBS records.
- ▶ 1:31:20 David Rosenthal Sony buys CBS records.
- ▶ 1:32:07 David Rosenthal As of recent years, Sony Music, the core of which is the CBS records business, does over two billion dollars in operating cash flow every single year, and they've owned it for 30 years.
- ▶ 1:32:34 Ben Gilbert But the music segment, Sony music, which comes from CBS records, did, I think, 11, 12% of revenue of the whole company.
- ▶ 1:33:56 David Rosenthal So here's what's interesting in my perspective on these, going back to the CBS records deal.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:20 Michael Ovitz And I got involved in the sale of CBS records to Sony and built a relationship with Noria Oga, who was the number two at Sony, who ultimately introduced me to Akio Morita.
- ▶ 1:24:41 Michael Ovitz We sold, we consulted on the sale of CBS records, and then Mr.
- ▶ 1:41:38 Michael Ovitz That I wrote about in the book that would have made Disney a fortune, starting with buying Yahoo, buying CBS records for two billion dollars, which is worth 10 times, 20 times that right now.