Friday, August 5, 2011, 5:00am CDT – Now that the National Football League lockout is over and the Houston Texans are back on the practice field, the team is unveiling new features for corporate suite holders. The Texans’ 194 luxury suites are at 95 percent capacity, said John Schriever, vice president of ticketing and events,… Read More
CALABASAS, Calif. (July 27, 2011) – That cheering sound you hear is the multitude of NFL fans reclaiming Sundays. But now that there will indeed be a 2011 pro football season, savvy corporations are confronting something of a dilemma: how to manage all of those suites and season tickets at the last minute. “The lockout… Read More
In Two Presentations, Spotlight CEO Tony Knopp Addresses State of Ticket Sales and Management – and Offers Teams A Vision for Making Online Ticket Administration Pay Off WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (June 27, 2011) – Given the sputtering recovery and a continuing need to make the business case for suite purchases, professional sports teams require the… Read More
According to the Associated Press NBC has just won the rights to four Olympic games through 2020 today. NBC, a Spotlight user, beat out Disney’s ESPN/ABC and News Corp. Fox Sports for the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. They also acquired the rights to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de… Read More
The Columbus Blue Jackets franchise is hurting for various reasons and the team is doing its best to address the issues it faces both on and off the field. Of note, some fans are renewing their season tickets even though the team has poor results, the arena lease renewal is uncertain, the average attendance per game is down, and the price of their secondary market tickets is dramatically lower. While surprising, it is not unusual. This article among other things focuses on the fans’ arena experience especially when a team is not playing well.
As teams invest in players that will make them successful, it is imperative that efforts are made to repeat the success, in order to continue to reap the rewards that come with success on the playing field as this article shows.
Even in an economy slowly recovering from hard times, it is still possible to increase prices for an improved product. As mentioned in this New York Post article the resurgent New York Knicks team has allowed Madison Square management to finally raise prices after holding them down for the past six seasons.
The piece goes on to detail a recent lawsuit brought against FIFA by MasterCard which was settled out of court for $90 million. The presiding judge was not favorable to FIFA in stating: “portions of the FIFA witnesses’ testimony were credible, their testimony was generally not credible” and “FIFA’s latest actions demonstrate that it still does not govern itself by its slogan, ‘fair play.’”
Mike Ornstein’s ticket scandal isn’t a surprise to anyone who has been in the business over the past 20 years. These days there are more and more avenues for corporate leaders to turn company tickets into personal gain – it was just a matter of time before someone from a team or league got exposed.
The article states that the three key factors in deciding to sponsor Pittsburgh’s arena were “circumstance, business connections and guts” and that to say the decision to sponsor the arena came from research and studies, according to Mr. Delullis, “…would be bending the truth”.