Ticketmaster’s Front Line Management buys stake in bluegrass music manager DS Management
In a move to further strengthen the company’s Nashville music connections, Front Line Management, the Ticketmaster Entertainment subsidiary created by…
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Live Nation signs touring deal with BET
Concert promotions giant Live Nation has signed a deal with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to co-produce music tours, according to…
Dallas Cowboys set regular season attendance record
The Dallas Cowboys officially opened the team’s new stadium Sunday night, September 20 and set a regular-season attendance record with…
Paperless ticketing slows down Bruce Springsteen show
The Bruce Springsteen show Wednesday night, September 16 at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, SC, the venue’s first to feature…
Ticket scalper held at gunpoint and forced to refund ticket money
A Vancouver, CAN ticket scalper, who sold Lil Wayne tickets to a customer on Craigslist, was forced at gunpoint to…
New Web site SeatGeek aims to predict ticket prices
SeatGeek, a new Web site tha launched this week during the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco, is aiming to take…
New York Mets could embrace dynamic pricing
The New York Mets, could be one of the next sports teams to embrace dynamic pricing, speculates Matthew Artus in…
South Carolina’s Bi-Lo Center requires two IDs for Bruce Springsteen paperless ticket show
Taking its fight against the secondary ticket market one step further, the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, SC, is requiring more…
‘Wicked’ stays strong as Jay-Z debuts in the Top Events
Wicked is still the top selling event with a 4.55 power score, according to TicketNews’s Weekly Top Events rankings for…
Guest Commentary: Why the secondary ticket market exists
When I tell my friends about my adventures in the secondary ticket market, they often reply, “Oh, you mean scalping?”…