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George Kliavkoff
Published March 20, 2006GEORGE KLIAVKOFF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ADVANCED MEDIA By Eric Fisher Staff Writer George Kliavkoff • Age: 38 • Title: Executive vice president, business • Company: Major League Baseball Advanced Media • Education: B.S., journalism, Boston University, 1989; J.D., University of Virginia, 1993 • Family: Wife, Ellen; children Delaney, 5, and Henry, 3 • Career: Ran the Good...
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Published June 27, 2005Baseball Steve Violetta, San Diego Padres executive vice president/business affairs, resigned his position. Violetta had been with the team since 2002. Lane (left), Lovetere (center), McCraig Basketball National Basketball Development League franchise owner Southwest Basketball LLC hired Tara McCraig in Austin, Texas; Josh Lovetere in Tulsa, Okla.; and Latisha Lane in Fort Worth, Texas, as account executives. Continental Basketball ...
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Published June 20, 2005Basketball The Seattle Sonics and Seattle Storm named Brian Byrnes vice president of sales and marketing. Byrnes most recently was chief marketing officer and business operations executive vice president for the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes. Reddy (left), Young (center), Scheetz The New Orleans Hornets named Eric Reddy, Trey Young, Jessica Scheetz, Paul Brown, Amanda Seibel, T.J. Ill, Rick Dooley and Jake Reid to inside sales position...
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Investment adds teeth to RazorGator
Published May 23, 2005 by NOAH LIBERMANThe already intense competition in the secondary-ticket marketplace will heat up even more with the announcement, expected today, that RazorGator has secured $26 million from investment groups Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Oak Investment Partners. It is one of the largest sports-technology funding deals in several years. Four-year-old RazorGator said the money will go toward adding relationships with professional sports properties and into marketing tickets for high-demand ...
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TicketsNow aims to boost site’s visibility
Published April 18, 2005 by RUSSELL ADAMSKenneth Dotson, one of the original employees of SportsLine.com, has been hired as chief marketing officer of secondary ticketing company TicketsNow.com. The company is expected to announce the hiring this week. Dotson Dotson’s hiring signals an effort by TicketsNow to gain more visibility in a growing but increasingly competitive market for processing the resale of sports tickets online. TicketsNow generated between $55 million and $60 ...
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News in brief from The Sports Business Daily
Published February 21, 2005NBC Sports bets on poker NBC Sports will produce its own Las Vegas-based poker tournament, a 64-player, $1.5 million competition to be filmed March 4-6 at the Golden Nugget. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship will air on four consecutive Sundays in May. A two-hour finale, which will see the winner earn $500,000, is slated for May 22. Sporting News sale on hold A possible sale of Sporting News has been put on h...
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MLBAM in acquisition talks with Tickets.com, sources say
Published November 22, 2004 by RUSSELL ADAMSThe Internet arm of Major League Baseball is in talks to buy all or part of online ticketing service provider Tickets.com, industry sources said. The acquisition would be a major step toward MLB Advanced Media’s broader goal of centralizing and controlling rights to all MLB business transacted online. The fact that discussions are taking place is also a sign of an era in which more content owners are seeking greater control over distribution channels. Executives from both MLBAM a...
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Jays sign 5-year ticketing deal
Published May 10, 2004 by RUSSELL ADAMSThe Toronto Blue Jays have signed a five-year deal with AudienceView that will put the Toronto-based company in charge of all the club’s ticketing services after the 2004 MLB season. The deal means Tickets.com will no longer be the Blue Jays’ online ticketing services provider. Its deal expires at the end of the season. AudienceView also will handle the club’s off-line ticketing services, which now are provided by Australia-based Softix. That deal also expires after this season....
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Change opens up MLB online ticketing market
Published April 05, 2004 by RUSSELL ADAMSDuring an off-season in which Major League Baseball's Internet arm sold nearly half as many tickets online as it did during the entire 2003 season, a more open competition has emerged among companies vying for the right to process those transactions. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which owns the exclusive rights to all MLB online transactions, last year sold 7.4 million tickets on mlb.com and the team sites. After the 2003 season, MLBAM ended an arrangement that for the l...
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Online ticketing firms battle for business
Published November 03, 2003 by RUSSELL ADAMSNo more waiting in line as the Internet provides a more convenient way for fans to purchase tickets. The latest sign of how profoundly the Internet has altered the sports ticketing landscape came last month, when hundreds of Florida Marlins fans stood in line helplessly on the sidewalk outside Pro Player Stadium as Cubs fans in Chicago swiped the last of the National League Championship Series tickets online. Many Marlins fans c...
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Ticket auction? Wait and see
Published September 08, 2003 by RUSSELL ADAMSTeam officials last week said they are reluctant to adopt a service from Ticketmaster that allows venues to auction the best tickets to events. The biggest obstacle, they said, comes from a public relations standpoint. "We would not be open to it in any way, shape or form," said Paul Andrews, senior vice president of ticket sales and service at Denver's Pepsi Center, home of the NBA's Nuggets and NHL's Avalanche. "It's Ticketmaster's right to develop programs to offer [clients], but...
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Clubs warm up to MLBAM
Published July 14, 2003 by Bill KingEven team execs critical of limits on club sites applaud the content on mlb.com. Executives from two Major League Baseball franchises were swapping stories at a recent sports marketing conference when an interloper shifted the topic to the Internet, asking what they'd taken away from presentations on that subject by teams from other leagues. "A lot of it is great stuff and I wish we could use it," one executive said, turnin...
