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The vast majority of the names on MSG's banned list belong to people like Justin Brandel: lawyers who are employed at a firm engaged in active litigation against MSG Entertainment's properties, which also includes the Beacon Theatre and Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, the Chicago Theatre, and the recently opened Sphere in Las Vegas. The list has drawn little media coverage outside of New York. But within the city's legal community, it has become something of a local legend -- the vengeful billionaire who deploys the most modern security technologies available, including facial recognition, to facilitate one of the oldest of human pursuits: settling scores.
At its Upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall on Monday, NBCUniversal showed off some new features that are planned for Peacock when the NBA makes its debut on the streaming platform this fall. Among them are key play highlights, games, and optional realtime overlay stats and graphics.
A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG). After scanning his ticket and being promptly pulled aside by security, Miller was told by staff that he was barred from the MSG properties for an incident at the Garden in 2021. But Miller says he hasn’t been to the venue in nearly two decades.
“They hand me a piece of paper letting me know that I’ve been added to a ban list,” Miller says. “There’s a trespass notice if I ever show up on any MSG property ever again,” which includes venues like Radio City, the Beacon Theatre, the Sphere, and the Chicago Theatre. He was baffled at first. Then it dawned on him: this was probably about a T-shirt he designed years ago. MSG Entertainment won’t say what happened with Miller or how he was picked out of the crowd, but he suspects he was identified via controversial facial recognition systems that the company deploys at its venues.
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Dolan is under fire for his controversial use of creepy facial-recognition software to bar unwelcome attorneys and critics from entering Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan will decide on Cott’s recommendation, but federal judges typically back magistrate’s opinions.
The SLA threatened to revoke Madison Square Garden’s license to sell cocktails at the venue and two other Dolan properties — Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theater — over its barring of lawyers involved in litigation against MSG.
Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies MSG Entertainment, the owner of the arena and Radio City Music Hall, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.
He’s moved to New York, with office views from a high-rise not far from Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, smack in the middle of Manhattan. “I tell people that we are stewards of the game,” Dumars said. “And people go, ‘What does that mean?’ Well, we make sure that the trains are taking off on time. We make sure that the game stays clean. We make sure that there’s any time there’s any disruption or things that should not be, we are here to clean this up and make sure we are presenting a great product and presenting it the right way.”
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Friends, family and co-workers – Adam Silver, Wynton Marsalis, former WNBA president Val Ackerman, Magic Johnson, friend Michael Cardozo, NBA executives Rick Welts, Kathy Behrens and Pat Riley and Stern’s sons Eric and Andrew – paid tribute to Stern at Radio City Music Hall, one block from Stern’s old office at NBA headquarters.
There's been an unusual amount of turmoil behind the scenes at Radio City Music Hall this Christmas season. It's already the most grueling time of year for the Rockettes, who dance a packed schedule of shows that push their bodies to the brink. But now there's an even bigger strain: the tension over their upcoming performance at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
There are two ways you can look at the sloppy play of Thursday night's USA Basketball intrasquad scrimmage at Radio City Music Hall. Either the U.S. Team forced 27 turnovers or they committed 27 turnovers. The former would be evidence of their aggressive defense. The latter would be a serious concern, especially since they played just 24 minutes of basketball, three fifths of a FIBA game. "We committed probably about 18 or 19, I think," Chauncey Billups said Friday, believing that most were those that you want to be concerned about. Billups led all 15 players with five turnovers, a number he reached only nine times in 73 games with the Nuggets last season.
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