New York cable clan the Dolan family made a leveraged bid October 8th to take Cablevision and its holdings private, offering $27 a share for the company.

Manchester G-Mex will stage its first concerts in nearly a decade when Morrissey closes his U.K. arena tour there December 22-23.

Dave Shapiro has left Velocity Touring and will move to the Los Angeles office of The Agency Group. Shapiro brings with him Gatsby's American Dream, Versus The Mirror, Billy Darling and others.

Mark Dinerstein has joined Knitting Factory Entertainment in Los Angeles as senior talent buyer.

When it comes to scalping, states have wide interpretations of acceptable resale values, from a couple of bucks above face value to as much as 45 percent.

AEG President Tim Leiweke thinks it's going to take much more than a police presence to get an estimated 1,500 homeless people off Skid Row in Los Angeles, and if county supervisor Mike Antonovich didn't know that before, he sure knows it now.

Europe's independent music companies are claiming Sony BMG's appeal against the annulment of its 2005 merger should be thrown out of court on the grounds that it's inadmissible.