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Red Sox implement digital ticketing to keep ticket prices low
This season, the Boston Red Sox will use a digital ticketing system at select games for upper bleacher seats at Fenway Park.
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Bruce Springsteen, The Fray tickets on sale throughout the weekend
With their third album set to be released next week, The Fray have tickets to their upcoming tour on sale throughout the weekend ending February 6, as compiled by TicketNews.
Since their debut in 2002, The Fray have achieved great commercial success. Their long-awaited third album is expected to continue that success, with early singles receiving strong radio play. Dates for their upcoming tour promoting the album include shows in Dallas, New York, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Orlando on sale today.
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Industry leaders gather to discuss the future of Broadway
Leaders from the entertainment, academic, and marketing industries gathered on January 23, 2012, for the TEDxBroadway Conference held at the New World Stages in New York City.
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Super Bowl ticket prices remain high despite fluctuations
Fans descending on Indianapolis looking for a Super Bowl ticket bargain the week beginning January 29 are seeing prices fall, but they should still be prepared to drop thousands of dollars to join the New York Giants, the New England Patriots, and about 68,000 other fans at Lucas Oil Stadium on Super Sunday.
The average resale price for a ticket has dropped below the $4,000 mark on most major ticket search sites.
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Barcelona ticket company leads industry in corporate social responsibility
Leading the way in the online ticketing industry's corporate social responsibility efforts, Best Barcelona Football Tickets, a sports travel company based in Barcelona, Spain, has unveiled a set of new philanthropic initiatives.
First and foremost, any unsold tickets left in Best Barcelona Football Tickets' inventory 96 hours before the start of the match will be distributed for free to homeless shelters, an unprecedented act. Also, Best Barcelona Tickets has donated a small portion of its premiere front page ad space to Kick4Life, a charitable organization that works on a range of projects focused on tackling HIV in Lesotho.
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Tigers ticket sales skyrocket after Fielder signing
When Prince Fielder was 12 years old, he was already reaching the seats with home runs at Tiger Stadium in batting practice sessions with his dad, Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder.
Sixteen years later, Prince is back in Detroit and Tigers fans will watch Cecil's son deposit baseballs over Comerica Park's fences and beyond. Fielder signed one of the richest deals in baseball history on January 24, 2012, when he joined his father's old team.
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Police arrest 97 for Olympics-related offenses including ticket resale
Last week the London Metropolitan Police Unit arrested almost 100 individuals in connection to offenses regarding the 2012 Summer Olympics.
British Home Secretary Theresa May reported at British security think tank the Royal United Services Institute that 97 arrests had been made by Operation Podium, a dedicated unit of London's Metropolitan Police. Created in June 2010, the unit's primary focus is to root out ticket companies and others planning to resell their Olympic tickets, as unauthorized resale of Olympics tickets is illegal in the U.K.
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Broadway ticket sales fall further last week in January
Broadway ticket sales took a significant hit as several productions experienced slight decreases in sales and attendance through the week ending January 29.
Gross sales for Broadway's 26 productions were down approximately $2 million from the $19.3 million shows earned the week of January 22. While 17 of the 26 shows made improvements, most were very slight and a number of shows saw significant decreases. "The Mountaintop" also dropped out of this week's gross sales after ending its limited engagement January 22.
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Electronic dance music carves new niche in market
Although still relatively unknown to the general public, the electronic dance music (EDM) genre has steadily been gaining popularity in the United States over the past decade.
Produced primarily for nightclubs, the reverberating beats and looping bass tones of EDM are designed to keep dancers on the floor as disc jockeys slide seamlessly from one song to the next.
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North Carolina venue looks to block ticket resale
The Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) recently starting working to take advantage of a North Carolina ticket resale law that allows venues to bar online resale of tickets for their upcoming events.
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