Las Vegas' legal betting handle last year was nearly US$116 million and record merchandising sales are expected this time around, given the 50th anniversary of the game and the sleek gold logo that goes with the event.
Nearly twenty years before the advent of online music stores, Zappa had proposed to replace "phonographic record merchandising" of music by "direct digital-to-digital transfer" through phone or cable TV (with royalty payments and consumer billing automatically built into the accompanying software).
Thanks partly to higher oil prices, America ran up yet another record merchandise-trade deficit in September, taking the 12-month total to $427.7 billion.
After years of jam-packed races, sky-high television ratings and record merchandise sales, Nascar has seen attendance at nearly every track slip this year as recession-weary fans continue to cut costs.
Yasiel Puig excited a city, electrified Dodger Stadium, spurred record merchandise sales and helped the Dodgers to within two victories of their first World Series in 25 years.
You can expect Lowtide to expand its vision even wider this year, with more music, a record, merchandise, and refined and collaborative events.
Again, these usually offer very cool things for fans backing their artist, from something like a "Thx Bud!" winky face text for a dollar, to essentially cool stuff like downloads, records, merchandise or "free" tickets to a show.
Security guards in retail stores protect people, records, merchandise, money, and equipment.
Through MTV ads, a tabloid distributed in record shops, merchandising, and a "truth" truck touring concerts and raves, it attacked the industry for manipulating teens to smoke, repositioning anti-smoking as a hip, rebellious youth movement.
The company can sign a management contract with any contestant it chooses, binding the contestant to pay 15 percent of his earnings, not including those from recording and merchandising contracts, to 19 Entertainment-related companies as a manager's fee.
Union members say they worry that management will beat them to the punch and lock out the 10,500 West Coast longshoremen, who load and unload cargo from ships and record all merchandise that goes in or out of the ports.
