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I wonder what the effect on attendance would be, if major sporting events had a "no cell phones" rule. My guess offhand: it would be devastating to ticket sales
by kylecordes 10y ago
I wonder what the effect on attendance would be, if major sporting events had a "no cell phones" rule. My guess offhand: it would be devastating to ticket sales.
- gruez 10y agoBut then again, of most of the people going are hardcore fans, sales might not be affected to much (although there might be outrage)
- smackfu 10y agoPGA Tour banned cell phones until 2011: http://www.golf.com/ap-news/tour-allow-cell-phones-tournaments http://www.golf.com/ap-news/tour-allow-cell-phones-tournamen...
- iaw 10y agoI've been trying to mull that out as well from an economic perspective but I think it's highly dependent on the existing distribution networks which adds additional complexity. Major League sports information is disseminated fairly quickly and the attendance levels make technological prohibitions a challenge. The nature of world chess championships make it a little different, as long as the globally recognized top ranked players are in attendance (preventing an organizational schism) I think the organizers could do whatever they want. In the end I think this ruling just means they can't enforce a civil penalty for violation of these rules, but there's no reason they can't expel the violator from their event. It's an interesting case.