Ranpitsu

Since 1966, when I started in this business, I’ve worked in almost every aspect of entertainment. I’ve been a manager, I’ve run a record label, I’ve produced TV shows and movies—pretty much everything. And, still, the most powerful thing I know of in entertainment is the live experience. The performer onstage receiving the adulation of the fans—there’s nothing like it, and that’s never going away.

— Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster, in a New Yorker article (Aug. 10 & 17, 2009) by John Seabrook about the music concert ticket business. [Full text requires registration.]

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August 15, 2009

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For the first time, the sum total of NBC’s nightly talk-show hours per week (17.5) will exceed the prime-time hours (17) devoted to everything else: comedies, dramas, reality series and game shows.

— LA Times article that speculates how Leno’s new show might affect Conan after the latter steps into Leno’s timeslot