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Spectra Adds Casper and Wichita Falls Arenas
Casper (Wyo.) Events Center Brad Murphy is the new GM for Spectra Venue Management at the Casper (Wyo.) Events Center, and Brian Hoffman is moving to the MPEC in Wichita Falls, Texas for Spectra. Both...
View ArticleScoreBig Shuts Down And Reopens To Uncertainty
ScoreBig Logo The secondary ticket market was hit hard this week after bigtime ticketing player ScoreBig shut down its site and let go of most of its staff. They reportedly owe millions to brokers for...
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Ehrline First-Ever Barclay Experience Officer
Leo Ehrline Industry veteran Leo Ehrline has been named the first-ever chief experience officer, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment. Ehrline is leading a...
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Dinosaurs and Good Weather Rock LA County Fair
Brave fair-goers pet a friendly dinosaur, part of the Prehistoric Dinosaur Adventures Mobile Museum exhibit. (VT Photo) Even with the transitional phase that interim CEO Mike Ortiz found as head of the...
View ArticleComcast Buys Last Piece of Comcast Spectacor
Flyers fans cheer on at Wells Fargo Center. (Photo by Getty Images) Beginning in 2014, Comcast began buying out its partners in Comcast Spectacor, concluding the last piece of the puzzle next week when...
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Biting into Local Favorites
Chef Joe Nader in Ford Field, Detroit, holds the new nine-inch giant doughnut. New food choices coming to National Football League (NFL) and college football stadiums in the fall range from...
View ArticleQ & A with Eventbrite's Greg Patterson
Greg PattersonWith acquisition of Queue, Eventbrite has furthered its mission to "democratize ticketing," according to the company's director of music and live events. Venues Today talked with Greg...
View ArticleRent Hike Relief In Sight For Austin Venues
Red River Street cultural district in Austin, Texas. (Photo courtesy of City of Austin) Live music clubs in fast-growing Austin — the home of the South By Southwest music festival and the...
View ArticleSpectra To Run Ford Park
Ford Park, Beaumont, Texas Spectra by Comcast Spectacor (Spectra) has won the contract to provide venue management, food services & hospitality and corporate partnerships at Ford Park, Beaumont,...
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ScoreBig Shuts Down (Sort Of), Sued
ScoreBig logo Secondary ticketing company ScoreBig temporarily ceased operations Friday, Sept. 24, amidst rumors that it fired most of its staff, abandoned its Hollywood offices and stopped paying...
View ArticleHot Tickets for October 11, 2016
Twenty One Pilots performing at the Moda Center. Las Vegas venues could not be stopped from dominating this week’s Hot Ticket chart with shows at T-Mobile Arena, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Mandalay Bay...
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Salamenta Moves to Cedar Park
Jim Salamenta REPORTING FROM NASHVILLE — SMG's Jim McCue introduced the firm's new manager for H-E-B Center, Cedar Park, Texas, during the International Entertainment Buyers Association conference...
View ArticleMusic Landscape Changing, But Tours Still Bring the Money
Jbeau Lewis, Jay Williams, Ali Harnell, Craig Newman, Matt Galle, and Mario Tirado pull back the curtain on the music agent world in 2016 at the IEBA conference in Nashville. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM...
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Robinson Center Completes $70.5 million Redo
Construction crews work to expand the Robinson Center, Little Rock, Ark. (Photo by Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau) Renovating, restoring and expanding any structure all at once is a tall...
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Excellence Honored at IEBA
Garth Brooks, Ben Farrell, Lon Varnell Enterprises, and Bob Doyle, ASCAP enjoy the moment being inducted into the IEBA Hall of Fame during awards ceremonies Oct. 11 in Nashville. (VT Photo) REPORTING...
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Battening Down the Hatches for Hurricane Matthew
Allen Johnson, executive director at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, briefs Orlando venue staff in preparation for Hurricane Matthew. (Photo courtesy of Kirk Wingerson) After making landfall in...
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Brand Names, Family Shows Rule
Pentatonix performs at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It’s been a solid year for Southwest venues. Profits are up and attracting top name talent hasn’t been as tough as it’s been...
View ArticleCountry Music Chaos?
“There are more issues involving arrests and calls for ambulances at an average country show then I've seen at all the EDM shows we do in any given year, and we do about seven of those," said Kim...
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20 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING PARTNERSHIPS
Flyered-up crowd at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, prior to the start of the Philadelphia Flyers home game. (Photo by Getty Images) To understand how the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia even got...
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TURNED INSIDE OUT AND OUTSIDE IN
Proposed renderings of the new Chase Center in San Francisco. (Photo courtesy of GSW Arena) As large and imposing as they may be from the outside, arenas around the world have seen a concerted effort...
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