![]() ![]() which distributes 20 to 25 hours of live music each week to its 200 network afliliaten, is on the verge of entering the satellite era and is grappling with ways to finance this operation. Asoriginally blueprinted in Jana ary, when the songs were performed "live" from the LIN General Asscm- (C'nntinued on page 721 NPR Seeks Financing Of Satellite Web By DOUG HALL WASHINGTON - National Public Radio. As for the Polydor Records release of the soundtrack album, there have been changes in programming format, as well as a delay in the sched uled marketing of the package. ![]() Continued en page 72) UNICEF Song Income In Disbursement Shift By IRV LICHTMAN NEW YORK five months after the televised UNICEF concert, the structure of how ironies from songs presented on the all -star show are to he funnelled to benefit children in underdeveloped countries has undergone a significant change. For BBC programs are broadcast to millions of people internationally, through the strength of its signals to nations like Russia, and through the corporation's own sales and syndication operations to the U.S. is set as keynote speaker for Billboard's International Music Industry Conference in Monte Carlo, June Singer was appointed to the BBC post last year, and the impact of lib philosophies is being felt not only in Bntain -as ìt continues to grapple with the elativcly new experience of commercial radio -but around the globe. and it is MacDonald who (Continued en page 681 Chart Action Share Report Label Standings On BBC's Aubrey Singer Is Keynote Speaker At IMIC NEW YORK - Aubrey Smpc, managing director of Britain's BB( Radio and the man charged with guiding that nation's non -commer - cial radio industry into the '80s. hcn w Prime Minister Jim Clark announces his cabinet lineup. The extension could make it a national program - Cultural allant coordinator for the Con - native.s, David MacDonald, is the likely wcandidate for the secretary of slate's post. This allows provincial lottery ticket holden to redeem stubs at part -value on the purchase of Canadian trcotds, along with hooks, magi. solved in the production and dissemination of Canadian records and tapes and finally, an extension of Ontario's "Halfback" program. federal guarantees on loans to firms 'Ven I I.I. Among budget proposals spoken of to "stimulate the Canadian arts and cultural in dustriei" are amendments to the income tax act to allow for 1004 investment write -offs on Canadian sound recordings, greater fexibihry than before an deductible expenses for performers. This, at least, rs the view held by many industrynes surveyed by Billboard the day after the election. In Canada May Benefit Industry Its DAN iii TORONTO- Canada's new Conservative Party government, which dust barely scraped to power Tuesday 122), promises great things for the cultural andusteies here including the record business. The visit was promoted by Harvey Goldsmith, a London -based agent, working with Continued on page 281 Cary treat's new album is Spy (SE SO6), slipping this seek ranee" (L46051) is the bot single Produced by Aril Mardm on fietti oa+nw"mt Records and Tapes New Govt. although Britain's Cliff Richard did well on an earlier visit, as did Germany's Boney M a few months ago. John is the first out- and -out rock artist to appear in the U.S.S.R. John's records have been available only on a black market basis, with albums selling for around $7(1 via illegal importing from neighboring territories. 1 SPOTLIGHT EUROPEAN RECORDING STUNCS,' 1NS1DE PROSPERITY FROM A SOUND INVESTMENT r s B NEWSPAPER A Billboard PUN t,1lon lnr International Music- RecordTafp Newsweekly $2.50 (U.S.) Russians To Issue John's `Single Man' MOSCOU the woke of Elton John's sig- nificant and rucce -fol concerts in this city and Leningrad, the Russian authonlies have given permission for a minimum 100,000 copies of his most recent album, "A Single Man," to go on sale here officially via Melodica. ![]()
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