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Ticketmaster, AEG will start offering refund options next month

Goliath blinked. All this week, concertgoers have been up in arms about Ticketmaster’s seeming change in policy, which sounded a

Another ticket seller is speaking out about how it intends to address canceled and indefinitely postponed events during the coronavirus

It’s bad enough we don’t have any shows to go to now. It’s worse that we might not have shows

What do Eric Church, The 1975, Muse, Queen, Ed Sheeran and Bryan Ferry have in common? Or Mumford & Sons,

There’s a CBC report today on how the Toronto Blue Jays are scalping their own tickets. The report says that

The Irish government is considering making it a crime to resell tickets for more than their face value. Two elected

If you want a fully paperless ticket in New York State, you might be in luck. Right now, it’s the

Paper tickets will be a required option for anyone buying an e-ticket in Connecticut according to a new law signed

This is just about the best ticket deal to date. For a one-time price of $800, you can be the

Oh gosh, now another festival has a mess on their hands. BC’s Pemberton Music Festival filed for bankruptcy earlier this

Warm weather is officially around the corner, which means it’s time for some summer tours! Plenty of international super stars

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver