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Motorsports facilities attract music festivals05 / 20 / 13Concert promoters are booking more music festivals at racetracks, finding those venues to be the right fit for multiday events. The Electric Daisy Carnival, an electronic music festival, this year added Chicagoland Speedway to its list of sites after its success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the pa... Tags: Facilities |
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Convention may change Charlotte arena
The 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte could lead to a permanent reconfiguration of Time Warner Cable Arena ’s lower bowl, one of the smallest setups in the NBA. Organizers for the convention take over the arena for six weeks in the summer of 2012 to retrofit ...
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Delta, Braves sign parking lot deal
The Atlanta Braves have signed a naming-rights deal with Delta Air Lines for the parking lot closest to Turner Field ’s main entrance. It is the first time in major league sports that an airline has branded a parking lot, according to the Braves’ research, said Derek S ...
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LED signs to line court
The BNP Paribas Showdown next Monday at Madison Square Garden will be the country’s first pro tennis event to showcase digital technology at courtside. The LED signs, owned and operated by ANC Sports, will frame the entire playing surface for the John McEnroe vs. Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras vs. An ...
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Verizon upgrading coverage
Verizon Wireless is paying for the cost to install about 600 small antennas at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore to improve coverage for cell phone users. The project, valued at seven figures, will put a distributed antenna system in place at the NFL facility to accommodat ...
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Still inspiring 10 years later
Teams that want to build new facilities look to these two buildings for ideas.
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Lockout to hit stadiums hard
An NFL lockout would deliver a financial punch to the gut for stadiums, taking away their chief source of revenue. Depending on the deals in place between teams and municipalities, both public and privately managed facilities would feel substantial pain from the absence of 10 pro football games, re ...
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Faster dispenser offers opportunities
A unique beer dispenser that pours a lightning-quick draft and comes with a built-in sponsorship opportunity is starting to flow more freely into major league facilities. Bottoms Up, the name of the system, is the idea of Josh Springer, a 28-year-old Washington state entrepreneur. Springer develope ...
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ISC year-end earnings down
Declining ticket sales depressed year-end earnings results for International Speedway Corp. The company last week reported net income for the year ending Nov. 30, 2010, excluding discontinued operations, was approximately $73.2 million, or $1.52 per share. That was down from $90.7 million, or $1.86 ...
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D.C. to celebrate RFK Stadium's 50th
Washington, D.C., officials are developing an extended public celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary this fall of RFK Stadium. Specific elements of the commemoration remain in formative stages, but district leaders are seeking to create a multi-month run of events for this summer and fall ...
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Braves brand super suites
The Atlanta Braves are developing two new branded super suites catering to separate audiences at Turner Field. The team is consolidating four regular suites midlevel beyond the right-field foul pole that often went unsold into two larger 50-person units for the 2011 season. One skybox will be marke ...
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