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<text id=89TT3087>
<title>
Nov. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Entertainment
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 77
Business Notes
ENTERTAINMENT
Tuning in To Europe
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<p> The buzz word for the 1990s, especially in the
entertainment business these days, is global. Paramount
Communications last week announced that it had taken a major
step in that direction by purchasing a 49% stake in the British
firm Zenith, Europe's leading independent television programmer.
A subsidiary of Carlton Communications, Zenith last year
produced such dramas as The Paradise Club and Inspector Morse
in Britain, as well as the romantic comedy Finnegan Begin Again
in the U.S.
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<p> Paramount declined to say how much it had paid for the
acquisition, but Carlton's 1988 annual report put revenues for
the production company at $95 million. "The Zenith acquisition
represents our most significant entry into the international
market," said Mel Harris, president of Paramount's Television
Group. "By aligning ourselves with the United Kingdom's major
independent producer, we are positioning ourselves for the
1990s and 1992, when Europe's trade barriers fall."
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