Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Anne Newman: Christchurch NZ Visitor Economy Manager on Electric Avenue

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Anne Newman: Christchurch NZ Visitor Economy Manager on Electric Avenue · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: If you're in christ Church this weekend or heading to
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  Speaker 1: christ Church this weekend, it's probably for Electric Avenue. Bucking
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  Speaker 1: the trend of festival's going bust. It gets underway today.
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  Speaker 1: You've got split ends, you've got Kesher, you've got Dom
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  Speaker 1: dollar headlining acts for this weekend. The festival generates more
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  Speaker 1: than ten million bucks for the city's economy and Newman
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  Speaker 1: is christ Church, gen Z. That's the Economic Development CCO
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning and good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan, how are you doing good?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you sir?
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  Speaker 1: How many I understand you had two hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 1: chasing ninety thousand tickets, Am I right?
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  Speaker 2: Let's preach up nine people across two days. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's currently twenty five thousand people on the waiting
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  Speaker 2: list to get tickets. If anybody's giving.
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  Speaker 3: Any of them up, where are they coming from?
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  Speaker 2: Anne, It's a mixture across both the local economy. But
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  Speaker 2: we've got about twenty three thousand people coming into christ Church.
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  Speaker 2: We had about eighteen thousand of them coming in last
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  Speaker 2: night after sort of five o'clock last night, so a
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  Speaker 2: huge kind of across New Zealand. And we've got some
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  Speaker 2: Australians coming in. It is New Zealand in Australasia's largest
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  Speaker 2: music festival.
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  Speaker 3: How does it compare for you to other events you hold?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Look, Electric ev as a pretty good caliber and
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  Speaker 2: high level event. You know, brings thousands of people into
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  Speaker 2: the city and it just creates such an amazing vibe
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  Speaker 2: in the city. The place is going off right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty intense. They need barbed why to keep people out.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently they're worried. They're that worried about people running it
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  Speaker 3: straight into the into the fences.
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  Speaker 2: I did see that. I guess that just goes to
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  Speaker 2: show the caliber of the you know, the content and
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  Speaker 2: the ax that they've got on at Electric Avenue that
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  Speaker 2: people want to get in.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys pay to have the festival there?
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  Speaker 2: The festival is supported obviously by Live Nation, who are
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  Speaker 2: a big American company, and so they predominantly do all
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  Speaker 2: of it. But if the additional support required, we will
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  Speaker 2: support them.
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  Speaker 3: Right. But it's not like you have to pay to
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  Speaker 3: host it. No, Okay, well that's good, So ten million
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  Speaker 3: bucks is net. That's great. Appreciate your time and and
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  Speaker 3: Newman who is with christ chit chen zid this morning for.
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