Jeff Ream Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 great to see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) It's a news release service. Follow the links on the site. Pretty straight forward. Who will see it? It will be pushed to tabloids, newspapers, and industry rags and likely be made available to wire services to provide fill in lifestyle media, I suppose. Barbara Nash is likely a PR person hired by DCI, who gets her material from Bob Jacobs, DCI director of marketing. Thanks. So right now we're hoping that some news agencies (besides Kevin here at DCP) will pick this up and give it some wider play? If Ms. Nash is the same person who convinced CBS to do the story last August on BD's drummer, then I guess that's a reasonable hope. Edited August 21, 2015 by N.E. Brigand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cixelsyd Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Let the thrashing begin! Go! And there will be thrashing. So 2015 saw the best attendance of the Indianapolis era, and decidedly so (good news!). But this press release, with its 12 claims of "record" and "highest" attendance, actually makes it sound like this is an all-time record for a DCI final. If you are tired of hearing people bring up 1981, leave this thread and do not look back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 And there will be thrashing. So 2015 saw the best attendance of the Indianapolis era, and decidedly so (good news!). But this press release, with its 12 claims of "record" and "highest" attendance, actually makes it sound like this is an all-time record for a DCI final. If you are tired of hearing people bring up 1981, leave this thread and do not look back. The very first statement in the release was this: "Following an incredible record-setting national tour, Drum Corps International (DCI) ended the season with the highest paid attendance in Indianapolis at the World Championship Finals." 1981 is absolutely irrelevant in 2015, so bringing it up at all is just plain silly, IMO. The fact that this year is the 2nd highest (behind Pasadena) in this century is good enough for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 OK record setting was the 1) highest attendance at Indy 2) total gate receipts all time Geez, nice if it was spelled out in detail, could have saved about 20 pages of DCP webspace....... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsband Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 1981 is absolutely irrelevant in 2015, so bringing it up at all is just plain silly, IMO. The fact that this year is the 2nd highest (behind Pasadena) in this century is good enough for me. Which is where this whole silly circus frequently goes off the tracks. There are a LOT of folks who -- no matter how you try to explain it -- will never understand that 1981 is irrelevant in 2015 They are stuck behind their preconceptions and NO ONE is gonna drag them out from behind that wall ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Irrelevant is one thing. It's another to say 2015 was "record breaking" and neglecting to say HOW it was recording breaking. I'm glad things went well in 2015 but let's be honest in exactly what is being talked about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barigirl78 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Irrelevant is one thing. It's another to say 2015 was "record breaking" and neglecting to say HOW it was recording breaking. I'm glad things went well in 2015 but let's be honest in exactly what is being talked about. It's typical of PR pieces intended to get press pick-up. In my business, I read a lot of press releases for the ratings of TV shows. I'm accustomed to a lot of creative ways to make something seem more significant than it is in the headline. But, usually the body copy has more detail. That being said, I'm glad attendance this year was good, regardless of the wording in the press release. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Windish Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I'm thrilled DCI attendance is CLEARLY on the rise, Knowing even 'firm' figures are rather nebulous, the term 'up' is all that matters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Strange turn of events… all the end zone seating were wristbands, some rumor was going around at semis that they were 2,000 seats away from a sell-out so pushed the wristbands to the sides...the wristbands to the side part was true, don't know about the other but good tickets for finals the day of the show were still around During finals, in good seats, there were plenty of marchers in the seats, some were using their phones to check tickets on-line and then grab those seats that went unsold. And around me, I had parents of MM that had a few extra seats and their kid brought way too many of their friends after they marched to snag all the seats around then shuffle as people showed up or left their seats (Cow note: I have a new corps that I’m not too keen on due to their marchers' behavior and comments, I shall root against you next year as punishment) Definitely the sign of the times... (for dinosaurs, the translation is they who got into the stadium on wristband passes pulled DCI/Ticketmaster charts up on their I-phone/portable computer thingey, saw what seats in preferred areas weren't sold, and sat in them unbothered as if they had bought the tickets.) Question: What sort of instructions and moral challenges did the admin of corps which had wristbands give to the MMs when these were distributed, or were the admins updating their resumes to explain why their corps wasn't in Finals? 2 sad states of affairs in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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