Robert F.X. Sil
Robert F.X. Sillerman, the leisure businessman who consolidated a collection of firms and helped kind the trendy live performance trade, died Sunday of a respiratory sickness, Billboard reported. He was 71.Sillerman had been dwelling in Hinsdale, N.H.
Founding father of SFX Leisure, Sillerman carved his means into the music trade by buying and consolidating a number of promoters within the 1990s, together with Invoice Graham Presents based mostly in San Francisco; Cellar Door Concert events from Florida; and Houston’s Tempo Concert events.
He merged the person entities into SFX Leisure and later bought the enterprise for $three billion to Clear Channel Communications in 2000. That finally turned the empire that’s now Stay Nation, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010.
A Bronx native, Sillerman was born right into a household whose father, Michael McKinley Sillerman, constructed the Keystone Radio Community.
As an undergraduate within the 1960s at Brandeis College, he launched his first enterprise, Youth Market Consultants Inc., providing college students marked-down journal subscriptions and serving to promoting firms entice younger audiences.
He began shopping for radio stations within the late 1970s with DJ Bruce Morrow, and over the following decade amassed TV and radio…