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| Easily Find Sports, Theater, and Concert Tickets - FanSnap and Time Warner Cable Inc. Partner to Help Fans |
 US ticket search engine, FanSnap, today announced a new partnership with Time Warner Cable Inc., providing nine million subscribers of TWC's Road Runner High Speed Online service convenient integrated access to one of the countries' largest ticket search engines. FanSnap accesses some 10+ million sports, theater, and concert tickets to 40,000+ events, from dozens of the leading providers in the ticketing industry.
"We know fans rely on Road Runner for the latest sports and entertainment news and content, and we are pleased to be working together with their team to provide convenient, fast access to the available live event tickets for the associated teams, artist and shows that their subscribers desire," said FanSnap CEO and co-founder Mike Janes. "People are not always aware of upcoming events in their area, and even if they are, the experience of finding tickets can be frustrating and time consuming," said Steve Cook, Senior Vice President of HSO Strategy for Time Warner Cable. "Integrating the FanSnap ticket search engine throughout Road Runner provides our subscribers dynamic, relevant event and ticket information targeted to their specific location and interests, saving them time and money." — Determine at-a-glance the ticket price range by section, using colored "heat map" markers — Zoom into the interactive venue maps, and see the ticket offers from numerous providers placed in clearly labeled rows — View at-a-glance the "Best Value Tickets" — the lowest price tickets available in key areas of the venue, easily identified as blue stars on the FanSnap Maps — Share events and even actual ticket listings via Facebook, Twitter, or Email In October, FanSnap was named to the "PC World 100: Best Products of 2009." In August, FanSnap was also named winner of the "Most Innovative New Search Engine" category of the Search Engine Watch (SEW) Awards 2009. Related Articles: Block this music monopoly - TM/LN merger will hurt concert consumers. by David Balto (originally published at Philly.com)
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