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Article: Eco-beat: online concert firm goes green for Live Earth.(Up Front)(Control Room signed deals with Microsoft Network L.L.C. and DIRECTV Inc.)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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CONTROL Room usually refers to a technical space, but in L.A. it's a company that has become an online concert giant in short order--and an unlikely environmental advocate, too.
The Beverly Hills-based entertainment company, owned by veteran concert and tour producer Kevin Wall, is among the nation's biggest producer of live online concerts with 82 to date.
The production of online concert broadcasts is a growing segment of the entertainment world. The company has key partnerships with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN (and its 465 million online users) and DirecTV. On July 7 it will debut Al Gore and Kevin Wall's worldwide Live Earth concert, which will spotlight ...