Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Rightthese shows go on for decades. This past season American Idol ratings averaged over 27 million viewers per episode, up 5% from last season. His father, Michael McKinley Sillerman, was a radio executive who went bankrupt when his son was 13. Sillerman's income source is mostly from being a successful Executive. Sillerman has a $1 billion plan to conquer the world of dance music, read the publications cover line. ), Sillerman, who had extensive exposure to the rock & roll business as a radio executive and concert promoter, realized that owning the rights to a rock act could be a great business. Hes been known to sneak up on people and scare them. Brucie and Bob bought more stations and worked their magic on operations. Lately Sillerman has become more guarded, though. According to Billboard, Sillerman died of a. Robert F.X. When SFX went public in Oct. 2013, businesses the company owned or was in the process of acquiring earned $14.6 million in adjusted EBITDA on combined revenue of $239 million. Elviss 37-year-old daughter and heir, Lisa Marie, has been unhappy that the business has been going nowhere: We were doing good, but you cant stay the same, she says. So far Idol stars like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken have sold over 14 million albums. Robert F.X. The top contestants on the show are signed to Sony BMG, and 19 gets 10% of their recording revenue. Sillerman was the owner of a range of television and radio stations during the 1970s and 1980s, In 1993 he formed SFX Broadcasting, and then built SFX Entertainmenta concert and stage performance promoter that was sold to Clear Channel in 2000 for $4.4 billion. Sillerman, 57, a Wall Street operator with a long history of minting money in the . At the time of the companys formation, Sillerman boasted of his ability to go toe-to-toe with Live Nation Entertainment, the live events behemoth which was formed out of the firm he sold to Clear Channel for $4.4 billion in 2000. Its different, Sillerman says. [4] After graduating from the Collegiate School, he attended Brandeis University. (A spokesman for Lisa Presley declined to comment. After that big deal, as with so many American business stories in 2000, things began to sour. He wants to do what we want to do. Like what? In 1989 he sold a group of radio stations to Westinghouse (now Viacom) for $389 million. Sillerman, the New York businessman who consolidated a number of U.S. concert promoters in the 1990s and created the company that would eventually become Live Nation, died Sunday. Hes obviously smart, and he doesnt b.s. He doesnt want to mess with anything. Mr. Sillerman called it an inside joke. Even when he was being sued in the end and was broke, hacking and wheezing with a hole in his throat and eating through a feeding tube, he was cracking blowjob jokes and talking about how he was going to f this guy and how this other guy was a scumbag.. FORBES first started charting DJ earnings in 2012; a year later, the collective income of the top ten acts had doubled. He was married to Laura Baudo. She also criticized the investors and analysts watching the company, saying they spent much of 2015 ignoring all indications that the Company was in a poor financial state and ignored key developments like a decision by Moodys to downgrade SFXs credit rating a development that under normal circumstances would be a significant red flag for investors. Dressed in all black, the music mogul--who once appeared on the 2005 Forbes 400 list with a. Robert F.X. Earlier this month in Los Angeles county, two female attendees of Live Nation-run event HARD Summer died of apparent drug overdoses. And she had a great sense of humor., Here then are the terms of the deal between Sillerman and Lisa Presley: CKX paid $114 million for an 85% interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises; Lisa retains the other 15%. There was no retirement plan. His brother, Michael, confirmed his death but gave no other details. He refounded SFX Entertainment in 2012 as a promoter of electronic music festivals; that company is now known as LiveStyle. That greatly reduces the number of viewers who DVR it and skip the commercials. Because American Idol is whats known as event programming, meaning that because its a contest, you almost have to watch it live. 19 did some $92 million in revenues last yearwith about a third coming from the Idol showsand earned $12.6 million. Sillerman intends to buy more high-profile properties like these (think athletes and rock groups, for instanceSillerman is tightlipped about possible deals), find new ways to distribute them, and increase their value. In fact, theres a hit TV show in the business of finding them. Not a clue. Over half a million tourists from all over the world stream into the shrine called Graceland each year. SFX grew into the nations seventh-largest chain and sold its 71 radio stations for $2.1 billion in 1998. Robert FX Sillerman is the Founder at Function (x). I could tell you, but Id have to kill you, he says. Starting in the late 1970s, Mr. Sillerman built a portfolio of radio and television stations worth nearly $1 billion. The transaction renamed the company to Function (X), Inc. and changing its listing on the stock exchange to FNCX. Robert F.X. In her ruling, McMahon said the buyout offer was likely made to distract attention from the companys poor quarterly financial reports, which showed that SFX was bleeding money and attendance at its events dropping. The listing brokers are Douglas EllimansCaroline Holl, Michael Russell and Stephen Geller. As a teenager he started his own greeting card company, buying cards in bulk and enlisting youngsters to sell them. Robert F.X. The orginal goal was to buy Pasquale RotellasInsomniac, explained Estopinal. When presented to the public--and later, Wall Street--the plan for SFX Entertainment seemed simple enough: roll up local EDM event organizers under one umbrella organization that could drive profits by providing structure and efficiency. The payment will no doubt make it easier for Sillerman to call Priscilla up and ask her to come to a ribbon cutting of a new Elvis property, for instance. Bob had his own way of doing things and it wasnt good in the end.. Last month, the company reported a second quarter net loss of $48 million on revenue of $121 million, up 48% from the same period last year. American Idol is the No. and attractions such as Memphis' Graceland to Robert Sillerman, . Robert Franklin Sillerman was born in Manhattan on April 12, 1948, to Michael McKinley Sillerman, a radio and television executive, and Estelle (Levande) Sillerman. Then there are concert tours and merchandising. Profanity was part of a larger schtick punctuated with sexist, racist and generally inappropriate language that was softened by Sillermans own self-deprecating jokes with his Jewish heritage being the punchline. But instead of a billion-dollar acquistion, Sillerman wiped out hundreds of millions in investor money and eventually had to file for bankruptcy. Sillerman's Dream," Deadline Holly- wood, May 10, 2011. I also thought she was shrewd and perceptive. Bob went out and taught salespeople; I taught the on-air staff. Contestants on the new Fox hit So You Think You Can Dance.. He just didnt a fabout anything, said one former business partner who did not want to share their name. In September 2012, Sillerman announced his biggest project to date on the cover of Billboard, sporting a black leather jacket, a global-shaped disco ball and a handkerchief in his pocket that famously read FOff., Its a universal statement, Sillerman told Billboard writer Kerri Mason. After the sale, Sillerman went on another buying spree, purchasing the rights to Graceland, the Elvis Presley Estate,Simon Fullers 19 Entertainment and an 80% stake in Muhammad Ali Enterprises. In 2014, adjusted EBITDA amounted to a $3.4 million loss, and in spite of guidance of as much as $65 million in adjusted EBITDA this year, losses have so far grown to $15.3 million. This is a BETA experience. Sillerman paid $196 million to buy 19 Entertainment. So what if the next Elvis is discovered on American Idol? For its money, CKX got a 90-year lease on Graceland, stipulating, among other things, that the premises may not be used as a massage parlor, a mortuary, or [for] the manufacture, sale, or distribution of feminine hygiene products. (Gives you an idea of how much attention Lisa and Soden pay to protecting Elviss image.) FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Even so, says Lisa Presley, theres only so far you can take a family-run business. How big will CKX become? Sillerman was looking to become the single big fish in this business so that when acts like Eric Clapton went on tour, his manager would deal with SFX and SFX only when booking venues. He sold the company in 1972 to the Boston ad firm, Ingalls. He. As his radio empire grew, Sillerman increasingly came up against Federal Communications Commission regulations restricting his ability to own multiple public broadcast stations, until 1996 and the passage of the Telecommunications Act, which lifted the restriction on owning multiple radio and television stations in a single market, paving the way for Sillermans firm to merge with Command Communicationsand become SFX Broadcasting. Viggle registers the television show a person is watching, and engages the users with a loyalty program for viewing particular programs. Think of how we can continue to expand the show, says Fuller. And game shows are the longest-lasting shows on TV. Mr. Sillerman had recently been living in Hinsdale, N.H. For decades, Mr. Sillerman was a regular in the headlines of the financial press, buying and selling numerous media and entertainment businesses, often at a huge profit, and presenting a brash public persona that sometimes rivaled those of the celebrities he dealt with. It was a very good, good combination, says Morrow. In February 2014, a lawsuit was filed against Sillerman, for allegedly having defrauded a trio of business partners. All these ballet dancers from Russia were huge Elvis fans, and [their handlers] were asking for our help to get them out of here and back to rehearsal. [19][20] In July 2015, Viggle had more than 9.5 million registered users across all properties, up from 5.4 million registered users at the end of 2014. CKX also gets royalty rights to 24 Elvis movies. The stock cratered. All rights reserved. There were people who told me, Im not doing a deal with this guy, hes going to die, Estopinal says. Part of that underwhelming reality may have to do with the public relations nightmares that can occur while running EDM festivals. Five years later, Clear Channel spun off those concert assets into a separate company, Live Nation, which in 2010 merged with Ticketmaster to become Live Nation Entertainment, the biggest concert promoter in the world. His timing seemed impeccable. And I love it. Thats not part of our strategy.. Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman was born on April 12, 1948, in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale in a very typical, liberal, educated Jewish household, according to the 2011 book Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalpedby Dean Budnick and Josh Baron, which secured an interview with Sillerman. Man in the middle: Simon Fuller (in back) with Idol stars Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, and Fantasia Barrino. We took on more debt than I felt comfortable with, she says. Sillerman already has 18 acres on the Strip through MJX, a real estate company he controls. Im not very knowledgeable about real estate, he reportedly told the New York Post at the time. You may find him a bit quirky. Sillerman was the owner of a range of television and radio stations during the 1970s and 1980s, In 1993 he formed SFX Broadcasting, and then built SFX Entertainmenta concert and stage performance promoter that was sold to Clear Channel in 2000 for $4.4 billion. This year, there are 88 festivals that we anticipate doing, said Sillerman. Then, Lisa says, the failure of the Elvis Presleys Memphis restaurant on Beale Street in 2003 made matters urgent. CKEs stock fell from a high of $28.80 in early May to a current price of $12 and change. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Elvis was available. (Note: CKX also recently bought MBST, a small talent agency in L.A., which does advisory work for the Beatles company, so stay tuned.) I ask Lisa about Sillermans plans. But Fuller had an even bigger idea, a kind of interactive on-air talent show. counterpart.) Between Elviss legendary free spending and the fact that he didnt own his songs, the situation was dire. There are so many ways to exploit that level of awareness. Sillerman attempted to rebrand the project as a Baccarat Hotel but this also failed. SFX Entertainment is likely well-managed on the festivals and business unit level and the companys shortcomings, in our view, appear to be with holding company management and its board of directors, which have arguably destroyed shareholder value, said analyst Richard Tullo of Albert Fried. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images). Industrial Media. Since then, revenues have grown but profits have vanished. At the time it was the largest gift ever received by an alumnus to the university. Obviously the market had spoken loud and clear that it believed the five-and-a-quarter deal was never coming, said Sillerman in one of his first interviews since announcing the privatization plan. Sillerman and Shelly Finkel, his close associate and SFX's eventual vice chairman, hardly listened to the music but saw the opportunity in what they believed to be the millennial generations rock and roll. He loves to party. Clear Channel, which had already purchased many of Sillermans radio stations from Hicks Muse, agreed to buy SFX Entertainment for a reported $3 billion. (Photo credit: Jonas Roosens/AFP/Getty Images). The company also held a stake in Morra, Brezner, Steinberg & Tenenbaum Entertainment, the management company for Woody Allen, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. 2023 Billboard Media, LLC. Elvis left the building 28 years ago, but as a pop icon hes still hot. Sillermans actions signaled to the market that he saw significant value in SFX. When his record company rereleased Elvis singles to promote his latest greatest-hits compilation in 2002, 19 of them became top five hits in Britain. I should get a waterproof one for the shower., At this particular sit-down, when Sillerman gets around to talking about CKX, he says, Technology is breaking down the old lines of distribution. We dont have enough time on this call to talk about the mistakes I made, said Sillerman during a 30-minute phone conversation from his New York City home, his voice gravelly and occasionally interrupted by a breathing apparatus due to a past bout with tongue cancer. [13] The first product the company produced was called "Viggle", released in January 2012, which used a mobile app as its primary interface. But if you walk down the street, youll be hard-pressed to find somebody who doesnt know what it is. 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Sillerman is largely responsible for helping create two of the biggest companies in music iHeartRadio and Live Nation through a series of deals he finalized in the late 1990s. He has unbounded energy when it comes to business. Capstar applied for and received permission to operate more than one class of radio station in the same market. Sillerman stood stone-faced on the cover of Billboard magazine. You may opt-out by, 2013, the day his company went public. The man who bought Elvis is Robert F.X. Its sad how things ended because he really was a bright guy, but in the end he carried a lot of pain. The founder. As of December 2013, Viggle companies had a combined 17 million monthly users. Sillerman had bought Elvis Presley Enterprises from Lisa Marie Presley in 2005, but later sold it to a private equity firm. Another show with legs? The app will also display the social media activity for other shows at the same time, along with what rewards are available for changing the channel to competing programs. [22][23][24], On October 9, 2013, SFX went public on the Nasdaq. On Jun 7, 2012, Function (X), Inc. was renamed Viggle, which changed the company stock listing to VGGL. Those companies promised two things. Late last year Lisa Presley flew to New York to meet Sillerman face to face. Take a walk through Elviss home with the throngs, and the feeling you get is reverential. Elvis's 37-year-old daughter and heir, Lisa Marie, has . The company also acquired 80% in Muhammad Ali Enterprises. In just the past few weeks weve seen a flurry of deals by companies seeking to profit from this tumult: TV networks are offering shows for sale, AOL is selling vintage programs online, and cellphones and iPods can now deliver music, video, and TV. Clear Channels stock, which hit a high of $95 in 2000, is trading at $32. What Sillerman bought was Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), a company that gets its $40 million in annual revenue from Graceland tours, onsite retailing, and licensingeach contributing a bit less than a third of the totalwith the balance derived from an apartment complex and the Heartbreak Hotel. But an informed source says that Lisa Presleys spending habits were also an issue: She had been running through $5 million to $7 million a year, amounts that closely matched the annual net income of EPE. With a market value of $1.1 billion, is CKX overvalued? But where did it go wrong for SFX? [12], In May 2009, Credit Suisse filed a request for summary judgment in New York State Supreme Court, alleging Sillerman had failed to pay the outstanding balance due under a credit agreement with Flag Luxury Properties LLC and that Sillerman defaulted on a series of payments due since April 2008, totaling $21.4 million. SFX bought up enough stations to become the nation's seventh largest chain. Despite this, the 67-year-old CEO said that he is the right man to run the troubled business and that he still wants to own the company even though he reneged on a plan to take it private earlier this month. As for spinoffs, did we mention that another smash hit on Fox, So You Think You Can Dance, is produced by Fuller too? Within a matter of weeks it is likely that CKX will announce some sort of Elvis Presley or Graceland-themed casino in Las Vegas. In 1993 he founded SFX Broadcasting with a partner, R. Steven Hicks. They had a per diem, and they were missing meals and saving money so they could buy more stuff at the shop. Soden has escorted everyone from William F. Buckley to I.M. Contestants on the new Fox hit So You Think You Can Dance.Jason Merritt FilmMagic/Getty Images, So why did Sillerman buy Fullers company? Ive tried to get him drunk to get him to tell me, says Brucie. I dont want to be like Martha Stewart and talk about what I shouldnt, Lisa says with a chuckle. . 19 is the brainchild of Simon Fuller, whom Sillerman describes as a cherubic bundle of nonstop creative energy. Fuller started out as a talent scout in the 1980shis company is named after a hit song by an artist he manageddiscovering and working with British rock groups like Spandau Ballet, Billy Idol, and Ultravox. Mr. Sillermans plan transformed the concert industry even as it drew complaints, which still linger, about rising ticket prices and the outsize power of a centralized super promoter. The man who bought Elvis is Robert F.X. (A hip-hop-style remix of A Little Less Conversation was a No. Which would seem to be a naturalElvis and Vegas go together like peanut butter and bananas. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice| Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information| Ad Choices Sillerman denied this when talking to FORBES, noting that he never founded the company with Moreno and stopped working with him after learning of past legal run-ins, a conclusion that Feldman also disputes. Didnt work. Okay, so come on, Bob, what does F.X. These are Sillermans strengths: identifying trends in the media business before others, then gathering and deploying capital to make the strategy work. While Sillermans buying spree made sense to few of the sellers in the later 90s, the dots quickly connected by the time he sold the business. ), Sillerman with Rod Stewart and Dick Grasso at the NYSE.Henny Ray Abrams AFP/Getty Images. You either have to grow or go down. In other words, Elvis is a classic buying opportunity: The underlying fundamentals are sound, but current management has been unable to take the business to the next level. And there are a couple of Sillerman stories that involve nudity. He declined to comment for this story via email. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New Hampshire resident Robert F.X. I suppose if you were a psychiatrist you could say I wanted to do well, where my father had had a lack of success, Sillerman says. Sillerman with Rod Stewart and Dick Grasso at the NYSE. Sillerman Net Worth. Sillerman, the New York businessman who consolidated a number of U.S. concert promoters in the 1990s and created the company that would eventually become Live Nation, died Sunday.. In each case Sillerman assembled a collection of media propertiesall in distributionat low prices and then unloaded the bundle for a higher price. You know if you make cars or washing machines or something like that, I guess you have to focus on margins. He also carried heavy personal pain after the suicide of his 18-year-old daughter Mackinley in 2012, losing his only child in the home he shared with his wife Laura Baudo Sillerman. Bob is like a Clint Eastwood character in an old Western movie, says Dennis Arfa, a business associate of Sillerman. Down the road EPE may construct more Graceland-like properties in places such as Dubai and Macau, and perhaps develop a concept similar to the Hard Rock Cafs in Europe. Sillerman's net worth , money, salary, income, and . Its funny, when we needed money we had a difficult time raising it. [21], In 2012, Sillerman rebooted SFX Entertainment, this time with a focus on the electronic dance music industry. Despite having established brands, the festivals that were acquired by Sillerman's empire collectively moved in the opposite direction of what was expected. The last thing well be thinking about is margins, Sillerman told FORBES in July 2012. He graduated from Brandeis in 1969 and, three years later, sold Youth Marketing Consultants to Ingalls, an advertising firm in Boston. Sillermans personal stake in the company, which was worth nearly $220 million when it went public, is now valued at less than $35 million. His father Michael created Keystone Radio Network and syndicated the popular show Lassie, but went bankrupt in 1961 and passed away in 1980, according to the book. [2][3], Sillerman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, and was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, the son of Estelle (Levande) and Michael McKinley Sillerman. And get this zinger from Reids report: CKX apparently has the right to shut down impersonator shows. (Say it aint so!) Bear Stearns analyst R. Glen Reid says to also look for a 2,000-seat Elvis theater in Vegas. [25][26] Defaulting on a $10.8million loan after missing an interest payment of $3million in January 2016,[27][28] the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1, 2016. On the subject of corporate partnerships, Sillerman said he underestimated the time it would take to sign up sponsors for SFXs events. In September 2016, U.S. district court judge Colleen McMahon ruled there was evidence that Sillerman likely misrepresented the go-private plan to inflate the companys price and allowed a lawsuit by investors with the Guevoura Fund to move forward. Billboard is a part of Penske Media Corporation. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images). But nearly every time Sillerman sold, he and his investors made money. His cost basis on these shares? We thought there were only three rock groups worth owning, says a source in Sillermans camp, Elvis, the Beatles, and the Stones. Sillerman graduated from Brandeis University in 1969, avoided the Vietnam War draft due to an injury and eventually went on to buy 92.7 WALL-FM in Middletown, New York, with famed DJ Bruce Cousin Brucie Morrow, according to Ticket Masters. Backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show, 1956: Elvis with the host and manager Parker (left). Young Sillerman graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis in 1969 after becoming immersed in counterculture politics and rock & roll. But from 2013 to 2014, the increase slowed to 11%; this year, its only 2.5%. But the companys performance was weak, and its stock price eventually plunged by more than 95 percent. It comes with five bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. No question we could build a convention-sized hotel here, says Soden. It had earlier been trading on the NASDAQ exchange. The Bolshoi Ballet came en masse to Graceland, Soden recalls. He managed Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics, and then created the Spice Girls. He passed away in his sleep on Sunday at the age of 71. He was an executive. Its a word Ive never liked. In 1985 Sillerman entered into a partnership with radio/television industry executive Carl E. Hirsch (known as Legacy Broadcasting) to acquire KJOI-FM, Los Angeles for a then record-setting $44 million, as well as other stations in Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Houston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York City. stand for? Sillermans personal take was a reported $219 million. Sillerman, Concert Industry Consolidator, Dies at 71 Roy Trakin November 26, 2019, 6:02 PM Click here to read the full article. Just ask the makers of the smash-hit movie Lilo and Stitch, who used an Elvis soundtrack to great success. Robert F.X. Robert F.X. The results supported theories that Sillerman--who proposed in late May to take the company private at a price of $5.25 per share--didnt have the financial partners or intent to buy his cash-strapped company. What we wanted to do was to take this to another level. Lisa says that she, her mother, and Soden had spoken for years about bringing in outside investors and/or management, but nothing clicked. Posh Spice). On Saturday, however, Sillerman was fielding questions on whether the company would go bankrupt--he said there was a zero percent chance--and admitting that he didnt work with the right people. Its also unclear if he was ever the right man for the job. Raised in the Bronx, New. [14] What about a world champion Idol drawn from all the different nations? The show venue may be moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to save money (and perhaps to fill a certain 2,000-seat theater). A crucial part of his strategy was using the nationwide audience at SFXs shows to lure sponsorship deals by big consumer brands like Smirnoff and Levis. Think about it. Robert Sillerman stepped down as CEO of SFX Entertainment in February, but the story between them continues. 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