Pearl Jam show in MA not at Tweeter Center... now at Comcast Center

chromiam
chromiam Posts: 4,114
edited June 2008 in The Porch
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20080604_Mass_Tweeter_Center_becomes_Comcast_Center.html

Comcast gets name on Mass. concert site

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MANSFIELD, Mass. - The Tweeter Center will become the Comcast Center under a naming-rights switch at the outdoor concert amphitheater in Mansfield.
Philadelphia-based cable TV provider Comcast and the center's owner, Live Nation, announced the change today. The switch takes effect tonight for a concert by Eric Clapton.

The nearly 20,000-person-capacity venue, which is about 45 minutes southwest of Boston, has 35 to 40 concerts a year. By midmorning, the center's Web site carried the Comcast name.

The site had carried the name of Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, the Canton, Mass.-based chain of electronics stores that entered bankruptcy protection last year. Tweeter had taken over the name of the Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts in 1999.

The bankruptcy triggered Tweeter to pull out of four naming-rights deals at outdoor concert sites on the East Coast.

In the bankruptcy, Tweeter's assets were sold under a court-supervised auction.

(By the way, a tweeter, along with a woofer, is a component of stereo speakers.)

What had been the Tweeter Center on the Camden waterfront was renamed the Susquehanna Bank Center under a $10 million deal announced Feb. 4.

Susquehanna Bancshares Inc., a Lititz, Pa., bank holding company, had recently opened a regional headquarters along the Delaware River in Camden. The naming-rights contract is for an initial period of five years and is renewable for two five-year terms. Over the 15 years, the value would be $10 million.

Tweeter had purchased the naming rights for the Camden center - which opened in 1995 as the Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre at the Waterfront and was referred to by most people as the E-Centre – for an undisclosed amount in 2001.
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  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    wow. i still call the place great woods.
    I love to turn you on
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    wow. i still call the place great woods.
    it seems the name is getting worse and worse
    Great Woods > Tweeter Centre > Comcast
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    I wonder how much longer the venue will continue to use ticketmaster as comcast has its own ticketing agency.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
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    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
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  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    Pegasus wrote:
    it seems the name is getting worse and worse
    Great Woods > Tweeter Centre > Comcast

    It will always be Great Woods, as well as the Garden, this corp. naming thing is nuts. God help us if someone trys to rename Fenway.
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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    I'm sick of this goddamn corporate naming shit. Advertising continues to ruin just about everything. Next thing we know the shows on the 24th & 25th will be at the Met Life Garden.
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  • UndyTaker
    UndyTaker Posts: 358
    Damnit! I liked saying I was going to see Pearl Jam at the Tweeter, whether it was Camden or MA.
    I shit and I stink. I'm real, join the club.

    A friend, he called, I didn't mention a thing. The last thing he said was, "Be sound". Sound. I contemplated an awful thing, I hate to admit. I just thought those would be such appropriate last words. But I'm still here.
  • U R A Crazy Breed
    U R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    wow. i still call the place great woods.


    ditto!!!

    i always hated "tweeter center" and Comcast center is just as lame!!
  • jaboodey
    jaboodey Rochester, NH Posts: 90
    It's Comtastic....maybe they will update the uptight security personnel and remove the lame curview...I know it's only a name. It doesn't change a thing. Gosh I wish these shows were at the venue formerly known simply as "the Gah-den."
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Crazy Breed wrote:
    ditto!!!

    i always hated "tweeter center" and Comcast center is just as lame!!

    Especially since it's the third building now named the Comcast Center.

    The University of Maryland plays its basketball games in the Comcast Center. And the Comcast Center (largest office building in Philly) just opened.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
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    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • chromiam
    chromiam Posts: 4,114
    Solat13 wrote:
    I wonder how much longer the venue will continue to use ticketmaster as comcast has its own ticketing agency.

    I don't know if they can change from TM since LiveNation owns the venue and I would assume has a contract with TM to sell tickets. Comcast only bought the naming rights not the venue.
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    chromiam wrote:
    I don't know if they can change from TM since LiveNation owns the venue and I would assume has a contract with TM to sell tickets. Comcast only bought the naming rights not the venue.

    True, but I think when it comes to renewal time, Comcast will put tm out of the picture.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
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    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • chromiam
    chromiam Posts: 4,114
    Solat13 wrote:
    True, but I think when it comes to renewal time, Comcast will put tm out of the picture.

    Agreed... surprised that the S Bank Center wasn't gobbled up by Comcast when the name rights were up for grabs.
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    chromiam wrote:
    Agreed... surprised that the S Bank Center wasn't gobbled up by Comcast when the name rights were up for grabs.

    I think they didn't want to have any confusion with the office building opening up that is only a few miles away.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
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    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
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    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,829
    chromiam wrote:
    I don't know if they can change from TM since LiveNation owns the venue and I would assume has a contract with TM to sell tickets. Comcast only bought the naming rights not the venue.

    Once their current TM contract expires, Livenation is gonna handle their own ticketing at many of its venues.
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    UndieTaker wrote:
    Damnit! I liked saying I was going to see Pearl Jam at the Tweeter, whether it was Camden or MA.

    thats exactly what i thought. it has a good sound.
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