Las Vegas podcast #100 includes:
Five Hundy By Midnight 12/31/06 (57:46 min, 53 MB)
This Las Vegas podcast includes a soundseeing tour of the Hard Rock Casino memorabilia collection.
Five Hundy By Midnight 12/31/06 (28:00 min, 25.8 MB)
What a start to 2007! Five Hundy by Midnight won the 2006 Trippie Award Readers Choice and Editors Pick for Best Podcast. Thank you to everyone who voted for us and to the talented crew over at Vegas Tripping for the honor.
To celebrate the new year, we recorded three shows last night. Episodes 99 and 100 will be posted on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:
Five Hundy By Midnight 12/31/06 (38:32 min, 35.4 MB)
After more than two months since the initial offer, Harrah’s Entertainment’s board of directors has accepted a $17.1 billion bid from Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management to take the company private. What this means for the company’s Las Vegas Strip masterplan is anyone’s guess. Will major renovations go ahead as planned? Will pieces of the company be sold off over the next few years? Will the new owner be content to sit back and rake in big bucks for five or six years before taking the company public again? Stay tuned.