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Sacramento County Fair Covers its Cost in First Year of Revamp
Danielle Jones shows off her award-winning horseshoe art at the 2012 Sacramento (Calif.) County Fair. Pamela Fyock had no worries that she could make the Sacramento (Calif.) County Fair self-supporting...
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Carrie Underwood blows away the crowd at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore. (Photo by Justin Brady) Country dominated this week's chart, with the genre's artists accounting for half of the spots on Hot...
View ArticleAzoff Exit Cost Live Nation $5.5M
Live Nation finished the year with a loss of $158 million, which included $5.5 million in cost related to the departure of Live Nation Chairman Irving Azoff. The loss was nearly double last year’s...
View ArticleAudienceView Grabs Ticketing by the 'Long Tail'
AudienceView President and COO Mark Fowlie, VP for Arts & Entertainment Maureen Andersen, keynote speaker and Futurist Garry Golden, CEO and Chairman Kevin Kimsa and VP Sales and Marketing Jeff...
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Passings: Arthur Pitzer
Arthur Pitzer, who served as the manager of North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh, passed away Dec. 29 at the age of 94. Not only did he serve as manager of the fair for 17 years, but Pitzer also served...
View ArticleSeason Tickets Not Dying, But Evolving
David Cushing of SHN, Jeff Koets of AudienceView, Brent Holck from University of Minnesota, and Jeremy Walls from MLB's San Diego Padres, participate in a panel at AudienceView's conference. (VT Photo)...
View ArticleWells Fargo Center Contest Gives Away Ticket to Every Event in 2013
The Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia has wrapped an ambitious events promotion that brought a 50-percent boost to their Facebook followers and added over $135,000 in value to their email database....
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Bassmasters Come to BOK Center
Mark Pierce rides into the BOK Center on his boat, brandishing his bass for the weigh-in. (Photo by Seigo Saito) B.A.S.S. brought its Bassmaster Classic to Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 22-24, bringing more than...
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Big Names at Indie Music Conference
Prince is set to play this year's SXSW. How can you one-up Justin Timberlake playing an exclusive, small-capacity show on MySpace’s dime? If you’re Prince, you have Samsung rebuild the stage of the...
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World Skating Championships Come to Ontario
Skaters compete at the World Figure Skating Championships. (Photo by Skate Canada) This week, Budweiser Gardens, an ice arena in London, Ontario, is hosting an international event with around-the-world...
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Local Music Celebrated at the Grove
The OCMAs at City National Grove of Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by The School of Photography at Orange Coast College) Some great music has come out of Orange County, California. Included are the...
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Maroon 5 play Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn.Maroon 5 is in the middle of a big tour, charting twice on this week's Hot Tickets. The biggest gross came from a Feb. 20 show at Bell Centre in...
View ArticleThe New Sound of EverBank Field
Like many of the National Football League's older stadiums, EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Fla., is continually making upgrades to its facilities to keep up with the standards of America's most...
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Gwinnett Center Now Supported by AEG Facilities
The Gwinnett Center Complex in Duluth, Ga., includes an arena, performing arts center and convention center. After four years of self-operation, 10-year-old Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Ga., is back in a...
View ArticleAEG Sale Off — And So Is Tim Leiweke
The AEG team after the Los Angeles Lakers won the championship in 2009. Pictured are CEO Tim Leiweke, VP of Communications Michael Roth, CFO Dan Beckerman and SVP Lee Zeidman. The Anschutz Company has...
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George Strait Shatters Records at RodeoHouston
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo shattered records as more than 2.5 million visitors passed through the gates during the event’s Feb. 25-March 17 run, nearly 11 percent up from last year’s...
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Bing Concert Hall Opens at Stanford University
Bing Concert Hall at night. (Photo by Jeff Goldberg) Bing Concert Hall on the campus of Stanford (Calif.) University opened with the boom of the school’s 100-piece orchestra at the beginning of the...
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Live Nation Lines Up JamBase Festival For Gorge
Adding to its roster of festivals at one of the country's most pristine amphitheater settings, Live Nation has teamed with live music booster site JamBase to launch the inaugural "JamBase Live"...
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Ed Sheeran plays at 101.3 KDWB's Jingle Ball at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn. (Photo by Joe Lemke) Since the news went worldwide that he would be accompanying Taylor Swift on her...
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Professional Bull Riders Bucking Attendance Records
The sixth annual PBR Madison Square Garden Invitational in New York City, 2012. (Photo by Madison Square Garden) It can only mean one thing when 16,000 New Yorkers are seen headed to Madison Square...
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