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PEOPLE & ARTSThursday 1 October 2015
The Who announce
rescheduled tour
dates, kick-off in Feb.
In this June 28, 2015 file photo, singer Roger Daltrey and Pete
Townshed of the band The Who perform at the Glastonbury mu-
sic festival at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury, England.
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The Who mend and feeling a lot bet-
have announced the re- ter.” Guitarist Pete Townsh-
scheduled dates for their end added that the band
axed fall tour, now kicking “will be coming back stron-
off in February 2016. ger than ever!”
The band said Tuesday that Tickets for the originally
“The Who Hits 50!” tour will scheduled shows will be
start Feb. 27 in Detroit. The honored at the new dates.
band’s fall tour was can- The tour, celebrating The
celed this month as lead Who’s 50th anniversary,
singer Roger Daltrey recov- also will visit New York, Chi-
ers from viral meningitis. cago, Los Angeles and To-
Daltrey said in a statement ronto. It wraps on May 29 in
that “I am now on the Las Vegas.q
Beyonce, Prince,
Jay Z to perform at
Tidal concert in NYC
The music and video
streaming platform an-
nounced “TIDAL X: 1020
Amplified by HTC,” which
will take place at the Bar-
clays Center in Brooklyn,
New York.
The concert will also in-
clude Nicki Minaj, Usher,
Lil Wayne, Damian Marley,
Thomas Rhett, Indochine
and T.I.
Tickets for Tidal subscrib-
ers go on sale Wednesday
and will be widely avail-
able Friday. Tickets range
from $74 through $244 and
all of the ticket sales will
support charities through
the New World Founda-
tion. q
In this Feb. 10, 2015 file photo,
Beyonce performs at “Stevie
Wonder: Songs in the Key of
Life - An All-Star Grammy Sa-
lute,” in Los Angeles. Christmas Day. The Los Angeles film festival
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Stream-
ing service Tidal is putting
together an all-star concert
starring Beyonce, Prince
and Jay Z on Oct. 20.
Fox, SiriusXM launch
headline news service
This image released by Fox News Channel shows the new studio
for their 24-hour news service, in New York. lite news channel also has
Associated Press CNN programming.
DAVID BAUDER continuously updated and
AP Television Writer repeated in 15-minute in-
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox crements.
News is collaborating with The station will also be
SiriusXM to launch a 24- streamed online and avail-
hour news service that will able to people through an
update satellite radio lis- app that can be paid for
teners and mobile device separately from SiriusXM’s
users on headlines every 15 main service.
minutes. “We’re really trying to
The service, to launch Oct. make this a news service
5, is Fox’s most high-pro- for the 21st century and not
file new business venture just replicate old radio,”
since the Fox Business Net- said Wallace, who would
work was started in 2007. not say how much Fox is in-
Fox is hiring 40 to 50 new vesting in the service.
journalists and building a Fox already has a radio di-
new newsroom for the op- vision that provides news to
eration, said Jay Wallace, stations across the country,
Fox’s senior vice president but given the state of the
of news. business it’s not a growth
Fox News Headlines 24/7 industry.
will introduce SiriusXM sub- SiriusXM already collabo-
scribers to a concept fa- rates with Fox on three
miliar to radio listeners in other channels, two that si-
many of the nation’s big- mulcast Fox News and FBN
gest cities — top stories television broadcasts and
Will Smith’s ‘Concussion’
to premiere at AFI Fest
This image released by Sony NEW YORK (AP) — The Will
Pictures shows the poster art Smith NFL drama “Concus-
for the film, “Concussion,” to sion” will premiere as the
be released in U.S. theaters on centerpiece to the AFI Fest.
announced Wednesday
Associated Press that the Peter Landesman-
directed film will debut at
AFI on November 10. Smith
stars in the film, which Sony
Pictures will release in De-
cember, as Dr. Bennet Om-
alu, the forensic neuropa-
thologist who discovered
brain effects from head
one that focuses on Fox’s
talk-show hosts. The satel-
three channels devoted to
The main news channels
can often latch onto one
story for a long period of
time; the headline service
won’t break its format
even for big stories.
“People really crave infor-
mation and they’re used
to getting it when they
want it,” said Dave Gorab,
SiriusXM vice president
who oversees information
programming.
SiriusXM considered pro-
posals from other news or-
ganizations to run the new
service but was attracted
to the “active and vibrant”
way Fox presents the news,
Gorab said. Fox News
Channel personalities Bill
Hemmer and Shepard
Smith will be on the air the
first few weeks to attract lis-
teners.
As a national service, Fox
News Headlines won’t rely
on the traffic and weather
reports that are a staple
of the local radio ver-
sions. There will be a strong
component of entertain-
ment news, and the Inter-
net will be followed closely
to keep listeners informed
on trending topics, Wal-
lace said.
The service will also be a
training ground for new Fox
talent and provide report-
ing on some stories that
can make their way to the
TV network, he said.q
trauma in football.
“Concussion” has already
proven a hot-button mov-
ie. The New York Times ear-
lier reported that the film
was altered to placate the
NFL, a charge Landesman
and Sony have denied.
Tom Rothman, chairman
of the Sony Pictures Enter-
tainment Motion Picture
Group, said he wanted to
unveil “Concussion” early
“so that the discussion can
be more informed.”q