Author: Tim Newcomb

Ticketing Star Awards: Tyler Hubbard

Ticketing Star Awards: Tyler Hubbard

Posted by | Jan 5, 2020 | ,

Tyler Hubbard, director of ticket operations, Washington Nationals. (Photo courtesy Tyler Hubbard) Winning in many forms  From the time Tyler Hubbard started his first ticketing internship with Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals in 2005, he has worked to make the team a top-flight ticketing destination. Then, in 2019, as the team’s director of ticket operations, he realized a dream as the team won its first World Series championship, as he used new technology to keep the club’s ticketing moving forward.  “The last two seasons have been just insane,” Hubbard said, from hosting the All-Star Game in 2018 — a “huge undertaking” that condensed everything he has learned into three days’ worth of ticketed events and festivities — to setting the stage for the postseason run in 2019.  “We’ve always said here internally that if we ever got to the World Series, this town would go crazy,” he said. “We got to… Continue Reading Ticketing Star Awards: Tyler Hubbard

To access this content you must be a subscriber and logged in with your subscriber credentials here. To subscribe to VenuesNow, click here for more information or here for combo subscriptions including sister-publication Pollstar.

Continue Reading Ticketing Star Awards: Tyler Hubbard

Read More
Wi-Fi 6: It’s Not Just About the Speed

Wi-Fi 6: It’s Not Just About the Speed

Posted by | Jan 2, 2020 |

6 PACKED: SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., to open in July, will have Wi-Fi 6 access points installed by Cisco. (Getty Images) Next-generation technology will increase capacity for connections at stadiums The Wi-Fi 6 era has gotten its start in stadiums across the U.S. and will grow throughout 2020. • Just as 5G networks enhance cellular service, prominent new NFL stadiums in California and Nevada will both employ expansive next-generation local networks as Wi-Fi 6 expands elsewhere in the league as well as in Major League Soccer and college stadiums.  “If you are doing a brand-new environment, of course you will put in the latest, greatest technology,” said John Brams, Extreme Networks director of sports and entertainment. Extreme Networks was the first into the sports and entertainment Wi-Fi 6 landscape with a fall 2019 installation in the 22,000-seat BBVA Stadium for the MLS Houston Dynamo, the new West Texas A&M… Continue Reading Wi-Fi 6: It’s Not Just About the Speed

To access this content you must be a subscriber and logged in with your subscriber credentials here. To subscribe to VenuesNow, click here for more information or here for combo subscriptions including sister-publication Pollstar.

Continue Reading Wi-Fi 6: It’s Not Just About the Speed

Read More
Stadium Sod Giveaway Takes Root With Fans

Stadium Sod Giveaway Takes Root With Fans

Posted by | Dec 11, 2019 | , ,

Officials at LSU’s Tiger Stadium are doing their first total field replacement in about a decade. (Courtesy LSU) ‘This is iconic’: Free LSU turf quickly finds new homes It took Louisiana State University football fans less than 10 minutes to clear a campus parking lot of more than 3,300 slabs of Tiger Stadium sod during a planned two-hour giveaway at the Baton Rogue school Dec. 2. LSU, the top seed in this year’s College Football Playoff, had announced it would replace the field and improve drainage at Tiger Stadium after the regular season. But when the announcement came on Nov. 30 that a late afternoon two-hour sod giveaway was scheduled for two days later, things got interesting for fans. Local media reported that hundreds of LSU fans were waiting at the giveaway site by 10 a.m., six hours before the appointed time to pass out the grass. “We did not… Continue Reading Stadium Sod Giveaway Takes Root With Fans

To access this content you must be a subscriber and logged in with your subscriber credentials here. To subscribe to VenuesNow, click here for more information or here for combo subscriptions including sister-publication Pollstar.

Continue Reading Stadium Sod Giveaway Takes Root With Fans

Read More
Cornhuskers Thrive on Tradition

Cornhuskers Thrive on Tradition

Posted by | Nov 25, 2019 | , ,

Releasing red balloons after the Cornhuskers’ first score is a Memorial Stadium tradition. (Tim Newcomb) Nebraska maintains longest college sellout streak with passionate fans, familiar food LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Cornhusker football is steeped in tradition, built on five national championships and a fan base that hasn’t failed to fill Memorial Stadium in Lincoln since 1962. And while the program has suffered less-than-stellar on-field results in recent years — the last national championship came in 1997 — that sellout streak just hit 374 games on the same day that the nation’s second-longest mark, Notre Dame’s string of 273, came to a crashing halt for a game that pitted two nationally ranked teams. Nebraska the fan base fully embraces Husker football, but Nebraska the school knows that the mix of tradition and passion isn’t fully exempt from waning interest, even if they haven’t seen it happen yet. “I have worked in… Continue Reading Cornhuskers Thrive on Tradition

To access this content you must be a subscriber and logged in with your subscriber credentials here. To subscribe to VenuesNow, click here for more information or here for combo subscriptions including sister-publication Pollstar.

Continue Reading Cornhuskers Thrive on Tradition

Read More
‘We Are Cleveland’

‘We Are Cleveland’

Posted by | Oct 31, 2019 |

The exterior of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse was built with 1,750 pieces of glass, each weighing 990 pounds. (Courtesy Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse) Remaking Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in the image of the city Technology and architecture. Concessions and premium seating. Lighting, wayfinding, public spaces. The list of changes at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse goes on and on, but one mission drove every aspect of the transformation of the 25-year-old building: making all things ooze Cleveland.  “The No. 1 goal is we are Cleveland,” said Tracey Marek, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.  “The vibe here in Cleveland is enormous pride and Cleveland becomes the priority. Our city is about so many things, and we like to think sports play an important role but don’t play the only role. We want to make sure the vibe of our city is alive and well.”  The building, home to the… Continue Reading ‘We Are Cleveland’

To access this content you must be a subscriber and logged in with your subscriber credentials here. To subscribe to VenuesNow, click here for more information or here for combo subscriptions including sister-publication Pollstar.

Continue Reading ‘We Are Cleveland’

Read More

This Month’s VenuesNow