``Livin' La Vida Loca'' -- Buyin' Ricky Martin Tickets Online; Dallas-Area Music Fans Purchased More Than 33% of Ticketmaster's Ricky Martin Concert Tickets Online.DALLAS--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 14, 1999-- Dallas-area music fans were "Livin' La Vida Loca" on Sat., June 10, when Ricky Martin tickets went on sale via Ticketmaster. More than 33% of all Ticketmaster tickets to Martin's Nov. 4 concert at Reunion Area were sold to fans online through Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch at www.ticketmaster.com, making the event Dallas' highest-ever first-day online on-sale. In addition to the Internet, Ticketmaster also provided Ricky Martin ticket sales to consumers via Charge-By-Phone Network, Interactive Voice Response, and retail Ticket Center locations throughout the Dallas area. Don Orris, General Manager of Ticketmaster, Dallas, affirmed, "We knew Ricky Martin was going to be one of our most in-demand concerts of the season. It was wonderful to be able to provide our Web site to allow fans the convenience of purchasing their tickets online." "Reunion Arena and the city of Dallas are excited to be one of only sixteen cities selected for the Ricky Martin tour," said Dave Brown Dave Brown can refer to:
Ticketmaster, a USA company (Nasdaq:USAI USAI United States Army Intelligence USAI United States Association of Immigrants ), is the world's leading ticketing service, selling 75 million tickets valued at more than 2.5 billion dollars, through more than 3,400 retail Ticket Center outlets; 29 worldwide telephone call centers; and www.ticketmaster.com, through its relationship with Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. Ticketmaster serves more than 3,750 clients in the U.S., South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. The company provides ticketing for 94 professional sports franchises and hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, and theaters. Clients receive comprehensive ticket inventory control and management, broad distribution, and dedicated marketing and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . Consumers receive convenient access to tickets for more than 350,000 events a year, including a broad range of concerts, sports, family entertainment, performing arts, and movies. Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. (Nasdaq:TMCS TMCS Trimethylchlorosilane (derivatization reagent) TMCS Telecommunications Management & Control Subsystem TMCS Taylor Made Computer Solutions, Ltd. ) is a leading provider of practical tools for living that help make the Internet an indispensable part of people's everyday lives. TMCS' family of Web sites includes CitySearch local city guides (www.citysearch.com), Ticketmaster Online (www.ticketmaster.com), CityAuction (www.cityauction.com), Match.Com (www.match.com) and LiveDaily (www.livedaily.com). TMCS has also agreed to add One & Only Network (www.oneandonly.com) to the TMCS family later this summer. Combined, these Web sites provide information and facilitate widespread local transactions to help people save time and money in their local communities. TMCS is located in Pasadena, California. USA Networks, Inc. is a diversified media and electronic commerce company with assets that include the following: USA Network; SCI FI Channel Sci Fi Channel may refer to:
The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. ; Ticketmaster and USA Networks Interactive, which includes Internet Shopping Network, whose primary service is First Auction, and the Hotel Reservations Network. The company also owns a controlling interest controlling interest The ownership of a quantity of outstanding corporate stock sufficient to control the actions of the firm. Controlling interest often involves ownership of significantly less than 51% of a firm's outstanding stock because many owners fail in Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc., a leading Internet provider of local content and online ticketing. |
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