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Daily News, New York, Media Column.
Publication: Daily News (New York, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 28-MAR-01 |
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COPYRIGHT 2001 Daily News
Byline: Phyllis Furman
Mar. 28--AOL Time Warner is cutting more than 600 music jobs in the next few days -- and that's just the beginning of an overhaul of the lumbering music division being orchestrated by its boss, Roger Ames.
Up next for the home of Madonna, Kid Rock and Eric Clapton: the imminent departure of Reprise Records chief Howie Klein, serious scrutiny of Warner Music's weakest label -- Elektra Records -- and the possible naming of an exec to run the company's North America division, Warner insiders said.
On top of that, Ames, the ex-PolyGram chief who failed to push through a merger of Warner last...
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