The National Football League team that will be play in Las Vegas has selected AEG Facilities as the operator of its under-construction $2 billion venue. Under the agreement, AEG Facilities will be responsible for the stadium’s operations beginning with providing pre-opening functions

You have a game going on. You have a stadium full of people, say, oh, some 70,000 or so. Moving parts are all over the place. So how do you communicate? Glad you asked. Sherron Washington, M.A. is a marketing and communication (marcom) professional who has imparted her wisdom and expe

By Jennifer Norris, CVE On June 27, more than 100 venue professionals and allied colleagues gathered at the SAP Center at San Jose for an IAVM Northern California Chapter meeting. We met at the arena in their BMW Lounge, which is also home to a fish tank containing tropical fish and t

Family members of former New Orleans Mayor Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial joined Commissioners of the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority and a long list of state and local dignitaries on July 3 to unveil The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Tricentennial Hi

Jerry Seltzer, co-founder of Bay Area Seating Service (BASS) Tickets in the 1970s, a San Francisco Bay Area computerized ticket services, died on July 1 of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 87. From 1983 to 1993, he was a vice president of sales and marketing for Ticketmaster. On his r