Courtesy of Packers.com: The Green Bay Packers today announced plans for a price increase on stadium bowl tickets for the 2019 season. Regular-season tickets will increase between $1 and $6 per game, depending on location, with more than half of the tickets increasing $2 or less per game. Invoices are being sent to season ticket […]
Courtesy of Variety Magazine: Responding to pressure from activist investors, eBay announced that it has initiated a strategic review of its assets — which may include the sale or spinoff of its StubHubticket-resale unit. The ecommerce company also said it is evaluating options for the eBay Classifieds Group. EBay announced the review after activist hedge fund Elliott Management, […]
Courtesy of BN Blitz: The average cost of a season ticket for the Buffalo Bills is going up. In an email sent to season-ticket holders, the team announced that the average price for a season ticket for the 2019 season is rising by $1.85 per seat per game, from $87.71 to $89.56. That’s an increase […]
Courtesy of The News-Herald: The Browns are increasing ticket prices for 57 percent of the seating inside FirstEnergy Stadium, the team announced on Jan. 31. The 2019 price increase of about seven percent per ticket is the first by the team since 2015 and the second since 2008. The team announced the cost of 43 […]
Courtesy of Variety: Think of it as MoviePass 2.0. The beleaguered ticketing service is trying to shake off its troubled image as a subscription company in a perpetual state of chaos and near collapse with a new marketing campaign and a fresh array of offerings that are being rolled out this month. The campaign, which includes print ads and a billboard […]
Courtesy of Bloomberg: Demand for tickets to college football’s national title game is at an all-time low, as travel costs and match-up fatigue weigh on fans of both Alabama and Clemson. Prices for tickets to Monday’s College Football Playoff title game at the San Francisco 49ers home in Santa Clara, California, have dropped more than […]
Courtesy of SB Nation / Bluebird Banter: It is safe to say the the current occupants of 1 Blue Jays Way are not Scott Boras’s favourite people in the world. The animosity began when after Aaron Sanchez refused the 2017 contract offer the Jays made in search of a larger raise so he was instead renewed at the minimum […]
Courtesy of Bloomberg: When Fox Sports head Eric Shanks attended last month’s Major League Baseball owners meeting, he did more than pass along good tidings from his boss. He brought the man himself, Lachlan Murdoch. Like his billionaire father Rupert, Murdoch knows commissioners and owners are integral to his vision for the company, which is charting a […]
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter: Murdoch’s 22 regional stations, valued at $25 billion, draw interest from Amazon, MLB, the Yankees and others as streaming deals heat up. Live sports rights may be headed to a new frontier as streaming becomes an increasingly significant component of deals. While Fox recently inked a 10-year extension with Major […]
Courtesy of Crain’s Cleveland Business: Competition for Cleveland’s concert dollars intensified this summer when AEG Presents spent more than $3 million to renovate the historic Agora Theatre & Ballroom. Live Nation, long the dominant music promoter in Northeast Ohio, harkening back to its roots as the iconic Belkin Productions, added its own major venue in […]
