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RE: Haley, Keith and...? In New York on December...?
Idol itself could conceivably paying for the trip. Even if they aren't hoping to make any money from her record sales 7 or 8 seconds of TV exposure of her in a crowd or plaing at a small street event with a sub title: Season 9 American Idol finalist is good publicity. If it only costs the show 5k$ or something that can be very very cheap public exposure... if she got a 5 or 6 seconds in front of a mic giving a positive message about the show on the street (like the Mariah Carrey will be a great judge stuff) on something BIG like the morning show that is Extremely valuable publicity for Idol... keeping their name in the public mind is priceless and a few thousand dollars is a minuscule drop in their expense bucket.
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Miguel .. of course if she could get that money she'd be booking things left and right.. I'm not saying she's getting those offers and turning them down or that the hotel would book her over and over (well if they like it they might do it a couple times a year) at that rate. What I am saying is that they have budgets and they'd be willing to pay a little more to get a little more "buzz" and that they'd not expect to get musicians for free.
I agree that the Mall performances on the promotion tour were not really paid for by the malls.. maybe like you said , they'd get some small sort of payment from the mall (in addition to the mall footing the bill for stage set up, security etc) that didn't come close to covering travel expenses. I think that is a different animal than Las Vegas. That was more a matter of a label looking for promotion than a hotel looking for music.
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