Strong Spending at 2016 Houston Rodeo
Little Big Town performs at RODEOHOUSTON. Although the 2016 Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo did not experience its highest attendance numbers with 2.46-million visitors compared to 2.483 last year,...
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AEG Ogden Buys Sydney Kings
Harvey Lister, center, CEO of AEG Ogden, bounces around the idea of owning a basketball team with Sydney Kings Managing Director Jeff Van Groningen, left, and Phil Hudson, chairman, Sydney Kings. The...
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PromoWest Launches Homegrown Festival
Walk the Moon and Snoop Dogg are set for the inaugural PromoWest Fest in Columbus, Ohio. In a highly consolidated world, PromoWest Productions has been proudly flying the flag of independent promotion...
View ArticleThe Real Meaning of ‘Entry Level’
Trent Barnes, associate director, SACVM UNC Charlotte (N.C.); Karen Totaro, general manager, Atlantic City (N.J.) Convention Center; Casey Sparks, assistant general manager, BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.;...
View ArticleHot Tickets for March 23, 2016
Nicky Jam performs at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 3. (Photo courtesy of Madison Square Garden) Latin Grammy Award-winning artist, Nicky Jam, played to a sold-out...
View ArticleINTIX CEO Plans Departure
Mary Milne, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Jena Hoffman, INTIX CEO, at SEVT in Columbia, S.C. (VT Photo) Jena Hoffman, who led INTIX into becoming a virtual association, has announced plans to resign her...
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L.A. Sports Arena Hosts Its Last Concert
Bruce Springsteen gets up close and personal with the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena crowd. (Photo by Dean Zulich) Nostalgia, sweat, tears and cheers soaked the Los Angeles Sports Arena as its historic run...
View ArticleWallace to Serve as Temp IAVM Leader
The International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) Executive Committee has named Carol Wallace as IAVM’s temporary executive administrator. Wallace recently retired from her role as president and...
View ArticleFrom the Editor
Russ Simons’ column on internet insecurity strikes a chord with me. I also read a story in Bloomberg News, several actually, about how impossible it is to lock what’s on the Internet. Sitting here in...
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Talking Points
SHEILA FRANCIS Director, Event & Venue Communications Monumental Sports & Ent., Washington, D.C. HOMETOWN: I was born in Detroit, but I grew up in Gaithersburg, Md. and Coral Springs, Fla....
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Sports and Arts Collide
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., spent $50 million on renovations, including outdoor dining. REPORTING FROM SAN ANTONIO — Sports and performing arts have a lot in common....
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Adding Event Discovery Channels
Jane Kleinberger addresses the Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement community. REPORTING FROM NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — With 90 client presenters and a new analytics and technology track, a record...
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Primary is Secondary
Kim Damron, Spectra Ticketing COO; Kate Green and Steve Disch, StubHub; and Chris Celona, Univeristy of California, Berkeley. StubHub receives over 20 million unique visitors per month, and over 50...
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Hold On, the Future is Coming
Devin Wenig, eBay president and CEO; Dave Butler, Spectra Ticketing CEO; and Scott Cutler, StubHub president. Beyond the new analytics and technology track, the influence of tech and digital permeated...
View ArticleKeep Delivering
After 33 PACnets, Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement founder, Jane Kleinberger, said the people are still her favorite part of the conference. More than just a trade show, she’s proud of the...
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Tours Start or End in California
The new scoreboard at Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by Getty Images) Fifty-two years later, the British invasion needs to be in Fresno, Calif. That city’s Save Mart Center is the first stop on...
View ArticleWineries Pour Efforts Into Music
Four-year-old, 3,000 capacity Vina Robles Amphitheatre, Paso Robles, Calif., takes pride in getting the details right. For instance, listening to customer complaints about juggling food and drink,...
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Dueling Convention Centers
Anaheim Convention Center expansion renderings. Anaheim Convention Center is operating at 60 percent capacity, 250 events a year, and bursting at the seams. It’s next once-a-decade expansion is now...
View ArticleEmerging From Bankruptcy
It has been a banner year for Bob Hope Theatre in Stockton, Calif., which is currently on a streak of three sold-out shows in three months — Dancing with the Stars, Peppa Pig and Styx, which is coming...
View ArticleSaving Symphonies
The downturn in the economy and increasing competition have been a challenge for performing arts centers in California and, parcitularly, for their symphonies. For the Paramount Theatre, Oakland, the...
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