Reporter's Notebook: EAMC Leads Data Revolution
Attendees on the last night of the Event & Arena Marketing Conference at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. REPORTING FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS — I think it might be time that the Event & Arena...
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The Shoe Brings Casino Entertainment to Cincy
Billy Idol rocks The Shoe outside of the Horseshoe Casino, June 14 Just one month into its maiden season, the new outdoor venue at Cincinnati's recently opened Horseshoe Casino has already begun making...
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EDC Grows To Week-Long Event
EDC 2012 at the Las Vegas Speedway Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival started out as a kind of minifestival by promoter Pasquale Rotella, celebrating all things dance music. But the 17th annual Las...
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Bringing Bacon to the Fair
Sponsor Slater's 50/50 grills up its signature burger — made of 50-percent beef and 50-percent ground bacon — for more than 4,500 attendees at Big Bite Bacon Fest in the arena at San Diego County Fair...
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Ovations Debuts The Kitchen and The Bar
Ovations has introduced two new portable, interactive food and beverage concepts—The Kitchen and The Bar—at the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Convention Center with plans to bring them to all new venues as well...
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Wooden Legacy Announces New Format, Location
The Wooden Legacy logo. While the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., is most known for hosting the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks, it has become a hub for college basketball. The arena has hosted...
View ArticleHot Tickets for June 19, 2013
Chesney performs at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, April 19. (Photo by Erik Kabik)Kenny Chesney dominated our largest Hot Tickets category with three shows. His largest...
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TicketForce Adds Business Administrator
Joanna Smith TicketForce has announced the addition of Joanna Smith as business administrator to lead all trade show efforts and marketing coordination. She is the eldest daughter of owners Brad Smith...
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Kay Towner Promoted
Kay Towner Event hospitality partner Centerplate has announced the promotion of Kay Towner to senior vice president of Sales and Marketing. Most recently, Towner served as VP of Sales and Marketing....
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Football Goes Transparent
These bags issued by the NFL will be one of a few options for carrying items in and out of an NFL stadium beginning next season. REPORTING FROM PALM BEACH, FLA. — “We’re trying to harden our...
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On the Roadshow to Anaheim
One camera crew films about 80 appraisals at each event. (VT Photo)REPORTING FROM ANAHEIM, CALIF. — What could cause excited guests to drive hours from as far as Paso Robles, Calif., to spend a day in...
View ArticleAEG Ogden Seeks To Fill Openings in Oman
Calling all adventure seekers. AEG Ogden is looking to fill the GM role at one of its most unique global outposts — Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre — which opens in 2016. Known as the Jewel of...
View ArticleSunset Strip Music Festival Expands Into Sixth Year
When Nic Adler looks out over the 15,000 people crowding his favorite patch of Los Angeles turf during the annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, he sees not a rock and roll bacchanal, but a neighborhood...
View ArticleTLCC Brings Community of Learning to San Francisco
Tessitura President Jack Rubin and his wife Marilyn wrap a successful flight on the USS Midway simulator at last year's Tessitura Learning & Community Conference in San Diego, Calif. (VT Photo)...
View ArticleAEG & MGM team up to restart arena plans for Las Vegas
An arena financed by AEG and MGM Grand is tentatively to be built on this parking lot behind the New York-New York Hotel. After several road blocks and false starts, AEG appears to be closer than ever...
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AEG Unveils StubHub Center
Fans wait in line to take a photo and create a commemorative personalized ticket, one of the interactive stations StubHub set up in the newly-renamed facility. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM CARSON, CALIF....
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Levy Chosen for Convention Center
Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. has selected Levy Restaurants as exclusive restaurant partner at the Global Center for Health Innovations and Cleveland Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. “We...
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Promotions at VEE
VEE Corporation has announced two new promotions. Kevin Kulas has been promoted to the senior vice president of Booking & Promotion. He joined VEE Corp in 2005 as director of Booking and most...
View ArticleBreaking Down Cultural Barriers
Shani Tate, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.; Trenzio Turner, Sanders/Wingo Advertising; Hanna Bolte, Mun2; and Gabriel Reyes, Reyes Entertainment spoke during the EAMC conference in Austin. (VT Photo)...
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Hot Tickets for June 26, 2013
Acrobatics during Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour.Cirque du Soleil is successful in Asia. The company's Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour grossed more than $13.5...
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