“Affiliates will be able to create online alerts about upcoming events, directing visitors to ticketmaster.com. Affils will have access to the company’s search buttons, banners and link engines.”
Tag: 11.27.07
A New Era Of Peace At A Performing Arts Center
For years, St. Paul, Minnesota arts groups clashed over use of the city’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Now there’s peace and cooperation in the air…
Differently-Abled Performers (And Are They!)
“The China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe features dancers who cannot hear, others who cannot see. There are blind singers and musicians as well as performers with physical deformities: a vocalist with spina bifida. A dancer without arms. The group has performed worldwide, including in New York and Los Angeles, often to standing ovations.”
Prices Soar At Sotheby’s Russian Art Auction
“The sale totaled 25.7 million pounds ($53.3 million), including commissions, as wealthy collectors fought each other to buy works of their heritage. The total pre-sale estimate, which excludes commission, was 16 million pounds to 23.5 million pounds.”
A Look At The New York Times’ New Home
“The best aspects of this building came from deeply considering how workplace design could aid the company in a tumultuous era. It’s not a frivolous exercise but one that smart, adaptable businesses should undertake.”
Who’s Benefitting From Broadway Strike?
The largest beneficiary of the limited shows playing through the strike, unsurprisingly, was “Young Frankenstein.” While producers of the Mel Brooks spoof musical are not releasing figures, sources peg the show’s grosses for the week ending Nov. 25 north of $1.85 million. If that estimate holds, it will edge out the $1.8 million Christmas 2006 take of “Wicked” for the Broadway record.
An Aging Problem: Old Have Difficulty Ignoring Information
A “chart mapping the performance of older people at memory tests shows they didn’t do as well. ‘The old have a problem with this. They don’t modulate as much … they have a harder time ignoring information.”
NBC Universal Makes Deal For Tivo Data
“The agreement will give the TV concern’s networks such as NBC, Telemundo and Bravo — as well as its NBC owned-and-operated TV stations — access to TiVo’s ratings data. The deal will enable NBC to offer advertisers data on the results of campaigns that use interactive tags.”
Arbitron Delays New Ratings System
“Several broadcasters have been pushing back against Arbitron’s new system, saying there aren’t enough people participating in the panels to ensure that the data is reliable. Arbitron says it has had particular difficulty getting young adults and members of ethnic groups to participate.”
Consumer Groups Oppose Satellite Radio Merger
“The groups claim there is new evidence showing that satellite radio and terrestrial radio are not close substitutes — a direct contradiction of the data submitted by XM-Sirius.”