The top 5 concert tours, ranked by average box office gross per city. Includes the average ticket

October 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

The top 5 concert tours, ranked by average box office gross per city. Includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week’s ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

v(1) Paul McCartney: $4,474,865; $137.28.

v(2) Eagles: $2,154,901; $106.00.

v(3) Dave Matthews Band: $1,503,596; $57.31.

v(4) James Taylor/Carole King: $1,376,152; $80.22.

v(5) Phish: $1,207,644; $49.82.

“House” (8 p.m., Fox): On “House,” Amy Irving guest stars as a children’s book author who has a seizure just as she’s about to take her own life. But the big news? House and Cuddy (Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein) are going on a double date with Wilson and Sam (Robert Sean Leonard, Cynthia Watros).

“Mike & Molly” (9:31 p.m., CBS): We’re hoping that the fledgling romance of “Mike & Molly” (Billy Gardell, Melissa McCarthy) doesn’t roll a gutter ball. It seems that, during a bowling date between the two, Mike’s ego gets a major bruising.

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New Music Society season to begin

YOUNGSTOWN

The 2010-11 season of the New Music Society at the Dana School of Music will open this week with concerts by the Dana Composers Ensemble at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Butler Institute of American Art; 8 p.m. Wednesday in Bliss Recital Hall on the Youngstown State University campus; and 11 a.m. Friday in Bliss as part of the Dana School of Music Convocation. All are free to the public.

The Composers Ensemble, directed by Dana faculty Robert Rollin, will perform new works by area composers. Richard Zacharias, board member of the local New Music Guild, will attend for the first performance of his solo piano piece. Dana School of Music students Carol Smolka, voice and piano and flute; Samantha Hogan, trombone and piano; Brandon Loewit, clarinet duo; and Sarah Kramer, flute ensemble, will premier their pieces.

PBS channel starts news show

KENT

“NewsNight,” the replacement program for “NewsNight Akron,” will premiere on Western Reserve PBS (WNEO.1/WEAO.1) at 9 p.m. Friday. The weekly show will feature segments from throughout the station’s viewing area, and not just Akron. It will be hosted by Eric Mansfield and will include former “NewsNight Akron” panelists Ed Esposito, Steve Hoffman, Jody Miller and M.L. Schultze, plus special guests.

“The genesis of ‘NewsNight Akron’ was to fill the news gap created when commercial TV stations left Akron more than a decade ago,” said Trina Cutter, Western Reserve Public Media president and CEO. “Our new ‘NewsNite’ program continues and broadens that responsibility — to offer regional coverage that won’t be provided by the Cleveland and Youngstown commercial news operations.”

Western Reserve Public Media will produce the new show in the state-of-the-art video studio at Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In addition to airing on Fridays at 9 p.m., the show will repeat on Saturdays at 5:30 a.m.