Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I think the other part of it is there probably aren't really much costs associated with this business.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…This is because of the pent-up demand for the Japanese public to buy American recorded records. I would assume part of it is what you said, Ben, that there's just enormous demand for music and for American music in Japan. I think the other part of it is there probably aren't really much costs associated with this business. CBS Records around the world is signing all these artists and producing the music. This is just distributing it in Japan. It's all just incremental revenue. Anyway, this just blew my mind. The other smart thing he does—which probably has a lot to do with CBS/Sony Records' success—is Morita puts his young protégé in charge of running it in Japan, a young protégé with a strong musical background. Do you know who that is? I have no idea. Nope.…
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