Heritage Bank Center

Back in the car, out of the lot, find another parking garage.

And I just told the phone, take me to Heritage Bank Arena.

yeah

that's where we're going we're going to go to the arena i don't care if i have to leave the car parked in front that's where we're going we'll follow the traffic we'll just follow the cars we can't be the only people getting here in a car looking for a place yeah absolutely so eventually sure enough the police are there they're guiding everybody into a parking garage go into the parking garage park the car get out of the car no idea where we are we find the parking attendant and we ask the parking attendant Hey, we're from out of town, clearly, and we're here for the Rush concert.

Can you tell us how to get to Heritage Bank Arena? And she says, yeah, just come into, I'm getting into this elevator.

Just take, get into this elevator with me.

I'm going down to the lower level, but then you take this elevator up to the second street level and the doors will open and boom, there's the arena.

Do you have keys? Do you have any artificial limbs? end of story we got in we got there the show did not start at 7 30 it started at 7 50 so we had shocker shocker so we saw the whole thing but i it's like i can't believe we almost didn't get there twice that's crazy and the second time ben we were literally underneath the fucking building yeah this

There is the Ohio, okay, I don't know about this, Ohio Bat Fest, which is at Maple Ridge Lodge over in Westwood.

The Cyclones, they've got their first game, their home opener tonight at Heritage Bank Center at 7 p.m. with $2, get this, $2 hot dogs, beers, and sodas.

There you go, folks.

If you want to go out and have a good time and Have a couple of beers there on the cheap.

Directed by Linda Day.

The staff at WKRP find themselves consumed with guilt for promoting a Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum when its general admission policy causes a terrible tragedy.

We need to put a big spotlight on our director.

Linda Day was born Linda Brickner in Los Angeles in 1938.

And we need to pause here to set the scene for what's coming up.

Yes, this is a real event.

The Who concert they're attending on December 3rd, 1979 at what was then known as Riverfront Coliseum.

This was a big tour for the Who.

Things have moderated since then, but $2 Beer Night might be here to stay.

The Cincinnati Cyclones do not own their arena venue, the Heritage Bank Center, but the team and arena share the same ownership.

Nederlander Entertainment, alongside Ann Schultz Entertainment Group, or AEG, owns and operates both.

That is a slice of the way sponsorships... help shape the sports scene here.

Certainly it feels like that has to get taken care of before anything like an NCAA men's tournament thing or even a women's tournament thing would be in the conversation.

Yeah, you know, the facilities that we have can do what they can do.

And again, we work with Heritage Bank Center on a lot of different things.

We're bidding on a variety of events with them now.

Eventually, the relationship between Les and Bailey becomes far less strained, with Les allowing her more freedom and input on the station's news reporting.

And during the episode called In Concert, and this is a great thing about the show, In Concert is about the tragedy at the December 3rd, 1979 concert by The Who at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, where I think nine people were trampled to death.

Well, Bailey had attended that and Les hadn't.

Les brings a depressed Bailey's spirits up by telling her, we're newsmen, well, news persons, and telling her he needs her help to cover the story responsibly.

But, uh, she is a huge, huge Kelly Clarkson fan.

In fact, couple years ago, took her to go see Kelly Clarkson down in Cincinnati, Heritage Bank Center.

Had a, uh, great time.

It was a good show.

Yeah, and then speaking back on the whole weekend there for Cincinnati with you, Big 12 Conference and WWE have this very unique partnership with, uh, the WWE and the conference in itself.

You were able to compete at Heritage Bank Arena back home on Friday night prior to that game.

How unique is it to kinda have this partnership with the Big 12, and what great things have you been able to see from the WWE aspect, and then Commissioner Brett Yormark for the Big 12 and the partnership they were able to put together for the WWE?

Oh man, it's super dope just because like obviously, uh, WWE and the Big 12 collaborate, and obviously you have athletes from the Big 12 that wanna be in WWE and s- so forth, and obviously they can help out and be a part of the whole NIL, uh, deal as well.