Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (also known as MSG Entertainment) is an American entertainment

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based in

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. The company was established in 2020 when

The Madison Square Garden Company Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (also known as MSG Sports) is an American sports holding company based in New York City. MSG Sports manages professional sports teams. These include the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks a ...

(now MSG Sports) spun off its non-sports assets as an independent, publicly-traded company. MSG Entertainment controls live events at

Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as The Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh and Eighth avenues from 31st to 33rd Street, above Pennsylv ...

, both in the arena and in

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. In addition to the Garden itself, MSG Entertainment operates two other theaters in Manhattan:

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and the Beacon Theatre. Outside New York City, MSG Entertainment controls the operations of the

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(acquired in 2008), co-booking at the

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in Boston (since 2008), and is constructing an entertainment venue in Las Vegas known as

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. MSG Entertainment also produces the

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(starring

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), both at Radio City Music Hall and in venues around the United States. On March 26, 2021, MSG Entertainment announced that it would acquire the

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group

MSG Networks The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by MSG Entertainment, Inc.—a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provide ...

in an all-stock deal, reuniting it with its namesake venue; MSG Networks had originally been spun out from The Madison Square Garden Company in 2015. The acquisition was completed in July 2021. Its origins can trace back to 2010 when

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spun off the Madison Square Garden properties into a new company called

. MSG has used face-scanning technology on Customers since 2018. This was published internationally in 2022 when lawyers in cases against MSG were denied entry.

Executive management

* James L. Dolan – Executive Chairman and CEO * Andrew Lustgarten - President * Mark FitzPatrick – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer * Scott Packman – Executive Vice President and General Counsel

References

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