WWE® Takes Home The Gold For Annual Fan Axxess Tour World Wrestling Entertainment® has won a Gold Award in the Mobile Marketing category from Corporate EVENT magazine for last year’s 2006 WrestleMania® 22 Fan Axxess tour. A sister publication of the long-running EXHIBITOR magazine, Corporate EVENT magazine provides exclusive,... Read more
NBC’s decision to break away from a sudden-death elimination NHL playoff game to show the Preakness Stakes pre-show may be an indication that network coverage of professional hockey in the US may be on its last legs. . . Read more
Ring Of Honor – ROHwrestling.com By Alfred Branch, Jr. TicketNews.com Ticket broker Cary Silkin’s pro wresting venture Ring of Honor will tape its first pay-per-view special Saturday in New York and head to Japan in July for the first time, as the promotion continues its successful climb up the... Read more
The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, cliche baseball is back, and to kick off the season, we have ten tricks to score a seat straight from a former season/group ticket representative. 1. There are always seats available. The worst thing that can happen to a... Read more
By Stacey Willets TicketNews announces its exclusive weekly Top 10s and analysis for the week of 4/16/07- 4/22/07. OVERALL TOP 10 EVENTS Event This Week Last Week Wicked 1 1 Boston Red Sox 2 2 Kenny Chesney 3 3 New York Yankees 4 4 Oscar De La Hoya 5... Read more
A proposal pending in the Maryland City Council would allow ticket holders to sell their Orioles tickets and Ravens tickets for face value or less outside the Camden Yards sports complex, a measure that proponents hope will spur baseball attendance. Current law prohibits the sale of tickets within a... Read more
WWECorpBiz — On Friday, April 20, World Wrestling Entertainment will air the 400th episode of SmackDown. First premiering on UPN on August 26, 1999, SmackDown consistently ranked among the channel’s highest performing shows. Originally airing on Thursdays, the show made the jump to Friday nights on September 9, 2005... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (PRESS RELEASE) — 04/12/07 — StubHub, the fan’s ticket marketplace, has announced another “industry first,” signing an official sponsorship agreement with the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League(TM) (www.austinwranglers.com), the first deal of its kind for an AFL team. The Austin Wranglers join an... Read more
By Stacey Willets TicketNews.com announces its exclusive weekly Top 10s and analysis for the week of 4/02/07 – 4/08/07. OVERALL TOP 10 EVENTS Event This Last Week Week Wicked 1 1 Boston Red Sox 2 4 The Police 3 3 New York Yankees 4 7 Jersey Boys 5 8... Read more
Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that the combined leagues drew a record 3,421,055 fans to Spring Training games in Arizona and Florida in 2007. The total narrowly surpassed the previous high attendance record set in 2005. MLB also announced that Grapefruit League games in Florida set a new attendance... Read more
