The Small Business Administration plans to distribute grants from its $16b Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program next week. Technical glitches have delayed the program.
More than 12,000 applications have been submitted from concert halls, theaters, clubs and other live-entertainment venues since the program was announced. The SVOG website shut within hours after opening on 4/8; it wasn’t fixed and reopened until 4/23.
Audrey Fix Schaefer, a spokeswoman for the National Independent Venue Association, told the Wall Street Journal “These small businesses are going under while $16 billion is waiting for them. The delay in delivering funding is causing the exact opposite effect of the intended bill to save venues.”
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/29a)
| ||
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
|