City officials say that if the number of people challenging tickets, and getting the discounts, were to rise substantially and affect the economic viability of the program, the city could always just cancel it.
Last spring the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, said the experience for fans in stadiums needed to be elevated to compete with television broadcasts, to keep fans engaged — and to keep them buying tickets — in a challenging economic climate.
It is no secret that 2012 has been a challenging year for US cinema, with ticket sales faltering, and a comparatively fertile one for US TV, which is increasingly able to provide knotty, demanding fare to a global audience via a variety of platforms.
Obtaining launch viewing tickets can be a challenging task.
Before a crowd of 3,000 – thousands more were left outside, having failed to get tickets – she performed a challenging programme including the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, "In the Silence of the Night" by Rachmaninoff and "Clavelitos", "a short, flirtatious song in the Hispanic idiom".
Project management might just be the ticket for scientists who imagine themselves in a challenging career away from the bench, managing cutting-edge science projects.
In an email to the club's season-ticket holders, Barber added it had been a "challenging" week for the club.
after a challenging summer.
And a challenging business.
It needs a challenging headliner.
It is a challenging task.
