Secondary Ticket Market Offers Choices For Consumers
By Brad Schy There are many changes taking place in the ticket business. You, the consumer, have more choices than ever in how you acquire and dispose of your tickets….
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TicketsNow Sneaks Past StubHub!
By Stacey Willets TicketNews.com announces its Weekly Top 10 Primary and Secondary Live Event Ticket Sellers for the week ending 1/30/2007 based on US visits. Top 10 Primary Ticket Sellers…
James Brown Dies at 73
The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, died Christmas morning at the age of 73. After seeing a top 10 single every year from 1959 to 1976 except for 1967, Brown…
Ticketmaster Reissues Eagles Tickets After Paper Snafu
By Alfred Branch, Jr. Some Philadelphia Eagles football fans received what turned out to be invalid tickets to the December 31, 2006, game against the Atlanta Falcons because they were…
Genesis European tour selling well…No Firm US Dates Yet
When Genesis reformed to announce European tour dates on November 7th the industry quietly wondered how the news would be received. The group had tried somewhat unsuccessfully to tour in…
Federal Court Judge calls Practices Misleading and Deceptive
Big Day Out Promoter, Creative Festival Entertainment practices called Misleading and Deceptive by Federal Court Judge TicketNews.com Big day out promoters lose their bid to restrain fans who have tickets…
Why Is There A Secondary Ticket Market?
By James Plankton The secondary ticket market is worth an estimated $10 billion. That’s one trillion pennies being tossed into the dark, murky wishing well of ticket scalping and ticket…
Heads Up Hippies: Bonnaroo is Back in 2007
Scott Timpano The 6th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be held June 14th-June 17th, 2007. The annual hippie consortium will again return to the hallowed jamming grounds of…
The Facts on the Proposed Repeal of Arkansas’ Law Against Ticket Scalping
Donald Jeremiah Trella Ticket scalping is so ubiquitous, sometimes people are surprised to learn it is illegal in certain states. There’s no federal law against scalping, and moreover, sometimes scalping…
Could 7-Foot Russian Nicolay Valuev Revive The Heavyweight Division Once Again?
Donald Jeremiah Trella To understand the current state of the heavyweight division in boxing today, an analogy to a very different sport might be surprisingly enlightening: Any longtime thoroughbred horseracing…