Backstage Pass Builds a Rock Licensing Empire in Canada
Brent Kopperson and Joel Rabinowitz, 36 and 33, built Backstage Pass from kitchen table planning to a near 20 million sales year in licensing rock images. They supply 3,000 retailers including The Bay and Sears with licenses for artists like Madonna Bruce Springsteen and The Who and plan new lines Wizard Wear Bear Wear and corporate merchandising programs.
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Kopperson
Rabinowitz
Abbott and Costello
Backstage Pass
Brent Kopperson
Joel Rabinowitz
New Kids On the Block
Madonna
Janet Jackson
Paul Abdul
Kiss
Rush
Milli Vanilli
The
Who
Bruce Springsteen
Brent
Joel
Montreal
CPI/Brockum
Labatt’s
Breweries
San Francisco
Winterland Productions
Winterland
Sting
Brockum
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson
MCA
U.S
Molson
Wizard Wear
Bear Wear
Kopperson and
Wheeling and Dealing
Toronto
Opinion Pieces Across Canadian Local Papers On News Values
The author discusses journalists choices across The Shaunavon Standard The Opasquia Times and Weyburn Review regarding what counts as news. They argue readers resist political detail and negative crime stories and question editorial discretion in publishing sensitive court and scandal items.
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Shaunavon Standard
Opasquia Times
Pas
Weyburn
Edmonton
Review
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By Fred McGuinness