Sunday, Feb 5, 2012

Pollstar Daily News Service

Pollstar Award Winners Comment Photo

Click here for the Pollstar Awards winners.  more

Pollstar Live! Keynote: Moneyball Photo

It turns out that the business of baseball isn't so different from that of concerts. The playing field is not even close to fair, the price of talent fluctuates in extreme, often irrational, ways and the art of making a deal is still of paramount importance. It’s also easy to get burned by relying too much on gut instinct. more

Producing Successful Festival Environments

Pollstar Live! panel coverage:  With so many festivals competing for fans' time and money, what does it take for an event to stand out and eventually have longevity in the market? more


Serious Funny Business

Pollstar Live! panel coverage:  While nearly everyone’s taken a hit during the economic downturn, the funny business is still proving to be a good business. more

Crowd To Cloud: Social Media In Music

 Pollstar Live! panel coverage: So your venue has a website. It has a banner in the foyer that says, “Follow us on Twitter.” That marketing manager posts stuff to Facebook. But why isn’t anything happening? more

Evolve Or Die: From Four Walls To Partner To Promoter

The trend is toward venues more frequently dealing directly with agents and bypassing promoters. Moderator Matt Gibson of Spokane Arena got right to the point: Is this bad for business or just natural progression? more

David Peaston Dies

Singer David Peaston, who had a string of R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died, his family said Thursday.  more

Zamboni Driver Charged With DUI

The driver of a Zamboni at a hockey game in Minnesota was arrested for operating the ice resurfacing machine while drunk.  more

Entertainment Barge To Be Sold

A southern Indiana city plans to sell a barge it bought last year because the cost of turning it into a floating concert stage would be too steep.  more

AEG Said To Reveal Plans For LA Convention Center

Anschutz Entertainment Group is expected today to unveil plans on remodeling the aging Los Angeles Convention Center.  more

Kodak Seeks To End Theatre Deal

Eastman Kodak Co. is looking to get out of its naming rights contract with the Los Angeles theater that hosts the Academy Awards. more

Warsaw Opens New National Stadium Photo

Concerns about being ready in time for this year’s European soccer championship were at least temporarily put aside by the opening of Poland’s new National Stadium in Warsaw Jan. 29. more

Bronfman Blasts EMI, UMG Merger

Outgoing Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. says the proposed purchase of British recording company EMI by recording rivals Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV is "dangerous" and must be stopped by regulators. more

Photo News

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The Pollstar Awards party includes the world's most intense karaoke - which included Rock Sugar (pictured, with a party member), Frenchie Davis (X-Factor finalist) and the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Jim Cummings.

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 'Moneyball' author MIchael Lewis and Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane do a book signing at Pollstar Live! in Los Angeles.

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 'Moneyball' author Michael Lewis, Bob Lefsetz and Oakland A's GM Billy Beane during Thursday's keynote panel discussion at Pollstar Live! 

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Van Halen plays an intimate performance for its CD launch party at the Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles during the Pollstar Live! conference Feb. 1.

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Lee Zeidman and the crew of L.A. Live, along with APA's Troy Blakely, check out the openeing reception at Pollstar Live! Feb. 1.

 

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