Buzz King Reveals Methods at EAMC
Cindy Watts of The Tennessean interviewed Steve Buchanan, president of Opry Entertainment Group, at EAMC in Nashville. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM NASHVILLE — When Steve Buchanan started with the Grand...
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Darren Davis Joins Mandalay Bay as VP
Darren Davis has joined Mandalay Bay as vice president of entertainment. Davis will oversee all entertainment operations and strategies at Mandalay Bay. Davis most recently served as executive director...
View ArticleAVAI & ISC put fans in driver’s seat
Daytona International Speedway With a mile-long facility and over 100,000 seats that has just seen a $400 million overhaul, the Daytona Rising project at the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway...
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Lombardi Moves to Oklahoma City
Hugh J. Lombardi, with 27 years of venue management experiences, is the new general manager for the 15,000-seat Chesapeake Energy Arena and Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City, for SMG. The arena is...
View ArticleAudio-Visual Fees Strongly Recommended
Brian Monahan and Paul Ramstetter present at the IAVM Region 2 and 3 Conference. REPORTING FROM CINCINNATI — “Technology will fail,” said Brian Monahan, national sales manager for Prestige AV &...
View ArticleOrlando Terror Changed the Game
Outside The Pulse, Orlando, June 12, where a terrorist killed or injured more than 100 nightclub attendees. (Photo: City of Orlando Police Department, via Wikimedia Commons)“It’s hard to be sad and mad...
View ArticleArena Suite Redo Will Showcase Technology
A new luxury suite at Wells Fargo Center Comcast-Spectator, owner of Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, will showcase the latest and greatest in parent Comcast’s technology in its current renovation of...
View ArticleHot Tickets for June 14, 2016
Carrie Underwood at USF Sun Dome, Tampa, Fla. Dolly Parton began her Pure & Simple Tour this week with four back-to-back sell-out performances, two of which appear on our Hot Tickets chart this...
View ArticleSMG Signs Citizens Business Bank Arena
Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario, Calif. The City of Ontario, Calif., will transfer management of the Citizens Bank Arena from current managers AEG Facilities to SMG July 1. Provisions of the...
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Live Nation's VR Push Gets Thumbs Up
A rendering of Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, concert bowl virtual reality experience. On paper it seems like a misprint: the world's biggest concert promoter is diving into virtual reality programming...
View ArticleAbate to MSG; Scanlon Promoted
Hank Abate, VP of venue management, Madison Square Garden Co.; Mike Scanlon, SVP, Arenas & Stadiums, Comcast Spectacor. For Hank Abate, who begins his new job as executive VP of Venue Management...
View ArticleMay 2016 #SMP100 Available Now
Our Social Media Power 100 Chart for May 2016 is now available. Anyone who follows the SMP 100 has probably figured out that we're constantly tweaking our algorithm and coming up with new ways to...
View Article2016 February SMP 100 Available Now
Our Social Media Power 100 Chart for February 2016 is now available. Anyone who follows the SMP 100 has probably figured out that we're constantly tweaking our algorithm and coming up with new ways to...
View ArticlePinnacle Grabs BankUnited Center
BankUnited Center The University of Miami has selected Pinnacle Venue Services as the new managers of BankUnited Center at the school’s Coral Gables campus, replacing Spectra Venue Management, which...
View ArticleAdams to Glendale; Bresler to San Francisco
Eric Bresler, newly named executive director and GM of Chase Center, San Francisco, and Dale Adams, AEG Facilities director of nonconcert events and now also GM of Gila River Arena, Glendale, Ariz.,...
View ArticleHot Tickets for June 21, 2016
Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Chris Stills (Photo Credit Juan O'Campo) After traveling around North America last summer with his backup band, Promise Of The Real, Neil Young brought his Rebel Content...
View ArticleOrlando City SC Picks Spectra Food
Rendering of the Orlando City Soccer Club Stadium Spectra has landed the food and beverage contract at the new Orlando City Soccer Club Stadium. The $140-million facility will have 25,000 seats and...
View ArticleSpectra’s Sandy Springs Deal Finalized
After more than a year of consulting, Spectra Venue Management has been awarded the contract to operate the City of Sandy Springs (Ga.) public gathering spaces. The city council approved the deal...
View ArticleLight: 'I congratulate everyone in this industry.'
(Pictured left to right) John Boyle, Darryl Eaton, Jazz Spinder, Maria May, Bobby Koehler, Hunter Williams, Mac Clark, Rob Light (Photo Credit: EDMBiz Conference) REPORTING FROM LAS VEGAS — The EDMBiz...
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Gorchov To Arizona
Andy Gorchov has been hired by SMG to be the general manager of the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. Gorchov was most recently project director for the ICON Venue Group. Gorchov was...
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