Comcast Spectacor

Comcast Spectacor (formerly Spectacor) is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based sports and entertainment company. It owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League and formerly owned the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. The company owns and manages the Wells Fargo Center and formerly managed the Spectrum in South Philadelphia before that arena was demolished, plus several community skating rinks in the Philadelphia region known as Flyers Skate Zone. The 24-hour regional sports network Comcast SportsNet is also owned by the company.

The company was formed in 1974 by Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider to own both the Flyers and the Spectrum. Snider had been instrumental in getting the Spectrum built in 1967, and assumed control of the arena in 1971. He sold a 63% stake in Spectacor to Comcast in 1996, forming Comcast Spectacor. Shortly afterward, he bought the 76ers; as the Spectrum's owner, he had been the Sixers' landlord since 1971.

Global Spectrum

Comcast Spectacor is the principal owner of Global Spectrum. The company manages and operates public assembly facilities throughout the United States and Canada, such as arenas, civic and convention centers, stadiums, university convocation center, trade and exposition centers, community ice rinks and theaters. Some of the arenas and stadiums currently managed by Global Spectrum are:

• Wells Fargo Center in Global Spectrum's corporate hometown of Philadelphia and the namesake of the company.
• University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona,
• Chaifetz Arena at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri,
• PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb.
• The John Labatt Centre in London, Ontario, Canada
• UCF Arena at The University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida
• BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida
• University of Massachusetts Mullins Center, located in Amherst, Massachusetts
• The Ohio State University Jerome Schottenstein Center, in Columbus, Ohio
• The Fargodome, located in Fargo, North Dakota
• Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey.
• Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York.
• MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• St. Charles Convention Center in Saint Charles, Missouri.
• Sioux Falls Convention Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
• Comcast Arena at Everett in Everett, Washington.
• WFCU Centre in Windsor, Ontario.
• Las Cruces Convention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Augusta Entertainment Complex in Augusta, Georgia
• Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas

Global Spectrum works in conjunction with another Comcast-Spectacor entity called Front Row Marketing Services, which works to identify new revenue streams at facilities.

Other businesses

Comcast Spectacor owns Ovations Food Services, which provides food and beverage services to arenas, stadiums, amphitheaters, fairgrounds and convention centers throughout the United States. New Era Tickets is the full-service ticketing subsidiary of Comcast Spectacor, and provides in-house ticketing in the US and Canada. In Philadelphia, the company operates under the name ComcastTIX and provides tickets to events at Wachovia Complex, Liacouras Center at Temple University, Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey, and the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast Spectacor produces 10 annually televised figure skating programs on NBC.

External links

• Comcast-Spectacor
• Global-Spectrum
• Ovations Food Services
• Front Row Marketing Services
• Flyers Skate Zone
• New Era Tickets
• SMG, formerly known as Spectacor Management Group