All posts belonging to the Coronavirus tag can be found in the list below.
A new coalition has launched in the US to urge the federal government to support companies within the live events industry during a period of uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Live Ev...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Live Events, Live Events CoalitionStubHub is understood to have furloughed up to two-thirds of its North American employees due to the Covid-19 crisis that has left the live entertainment industry reeling. A source close to the mat...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Furlough, StubHubUK trade association Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) is calling on the government to freeze the economy as the live events industry faces loss of business due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Tit...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Night Time Industry, NTIA, The Big FreezeThe UK’s Musicians’ Union (MU) has launched a £1m (€1.08m/$1.17m) hardship fund to assist members who have been hit by the widespread cancellation of work due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Lon...
Tags: CoronaMusicians, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Musicians' Union, SupportChina has reported slow sales after 500 of the country’s more than 70,000 cinemas reopened following the complete blackout that began in January due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Around five per cent...
Tags: China, Cinema, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Maoyan, SalesSwiss cloud-based ticketing solution provider Ticketino remains confident the majority of its events can be rearranged for another date as the live industry goes dark amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Postponement, Switzerland, Ticketino, ViewpointUK Music is leading calls for more help for self-employed workers that have been impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak. Tom Kiehl, chief executive of the umbrella organisation that represents the UK’...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Self-Employed, UK Music, WagesThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced yesterday (Sunday) that it will consider a postponement of this summer’s Games in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, with it now appearing lik...
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Olympics, Tokyo 2020A quick glance at the chart below reveals the pallous state of our sector – and this is just in the UK alone. From TheTicketingBusiness analysis of data pulled from Ticketmaster UK’s own Cancelled...
Tags: Analysis, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Market Research, Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster ukUK Music is among the industry and charity leaders that have penned a letter to the Chancellor to urge the country’s government to draw up a package of “urgent measures to help the crisis-hit sect...
Tags: APM, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Sound of Silence, UK Music
