CoasterBuzz Podcast #58 posted

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Jeff, Richard and Pat review this week's news in the amusement industry.

We finally welcome Richard Bannister to the show from Dublin.
Richard shows us how it's done squeezing in a park visit on a layover.
Dick Kinzel is staying on as CEO of Cedar Fair. Is it a good, bad or neutral thing for the company.
Universal offers healthier food, following Disney's lead, but Jeff thinks they already had a lot of better choices. Richard says American portions are comparatively large.
Cedar Fair lays out capital expenditures for the year, and appears to be leaving the Paramount Parks as is.
The group discusses the ups and down of Mitch Hawker's poll.
Report card for the Six Flags new regime in their first year: Still too early to call.
Is the Six Flags New Orleans abandonment immoral or just the right business decision?
The CoasterBuzz Podcast is now listed on Digg. Digg and listen here!
CoasterBuzz makeover is forthcoming, and an early version of the new forum will be available for testing soon.
Lots of CoasterBuzz Club events are coming in 2007, including the Fall Affair at Holiday World, Saturday, September 29.