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Ticket selling entered the computer age in 1967, when Ticketron (then known as Ticket Reservation Systems) opened its first neighborhood outlets in New York City. This year the company expects to sell 55 million tickets through its network of 1,200 nationwide outlets and a growing charge-by-phone operation. Meanwhile, new competitors and services are springing up at a rapid pace. A phone call can now get you tickets to museum shows, an evening at New York's Studio 54 disco, a spot at one of California's crowded campsites, or a seat at the Educational Testing...
...Angeles, a full-blown computer-ticket war broke out earlier this year when a scrappy newcomer called Ticketmaster breezed into town and supplanted Ticketron at several key venues, including the Los Angeles Forum. Ticketmaster takes reservations both by phone and through ticket outlets, and it has just moved the computer-ticket revolution an intriguing step further. For an extra $15 to $25, customers can get their ducats delivered to their door...
...million headquarters. 'For the past two years, the "Crystal Cathedral" has been offering such secular, profit-making fare as weight-reduction classes and counseling programs, plus concerts by Lawrence Welk and Victor Borge. State tax authorities would now like to pass their collection plate. "They even had a Ticketron there," says a local tax investigator. "The first time I saw it, I thought: 'You mean you have to buy a ticket to go to church?' " Schuller's cathedral and enterprises, which have revenues of about $30 million a year, may be forced to pay back taxes...
There are also tickets available at the Garden box office and at Ticketron...
...people who were early enough to buy tickets arrived before the outlet opened at 10 a.m. Some were there to buy tickets for the Stones' Nov. 27-28 concert in Syracuse, but the Nov. 27 date sold out Tuesday and tickets for the 28th would not be available through Ticketron, a spokesman for the Orpheum said...