Concert History | Rolling Stones at TWA Dome — One Broadcast, Two Household Prices

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On December 12, 1997, the Rolling Stones’ concert at St. Louis’s TWA Dome was sold not only by the seat but by the household—and households received different offers depending on the system delivering the show.

A [contemporary DigitalHit announcement](https://www.digitalhit.com/news97.shtml) described the live U.S. pay-per-view: cable households were quoted US$19.95, while DirecTV’s then three million subscribers received it at no additional charge to their monthly fee. The [Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-14-ca-53494-story.html) independently announced the December 12 live broadcast from the TWA Dome. This was not one uniform broadcast ticket. The distributor treated the same concert as an à-la-carte cable event and as a satellite-subscription benefit.

Reporting from the venue, Reuters correspondent Dean Goodman described Mick Jagger acknowledging viewers watching on television and listeners hearing the radio simulcast in his [contemporaneous review](https://iorr.org/rew97/stlouis.htm). Taken together, the sources show the dome operating as both arena and transmission point: one stage served the people inside, pay-per-view households, included satellite subscribers, and a radio audience at the same time.

That split matters because it locates concert economics outside the box office. The concert at the source did not become a different session when it crossed from cable to satellite; the billing relationship changed. By packaging one live feed differently on two delivery systems, the broadcast partners turned a single dated session into two household products.

The building was called TWA Dome in 1997. As of September 2026, its operator calls it [The Dome at America’s Center](https://explorestlouis.com/the-dome-at-americas-center/).

Coordinates: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292739) places the stadium at 38.632778, -90.188611, while the independently maintained [OpenStreetMap building footprint](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24963449) has a centroid at 38.6327852, -90.1885510, about five metres away. The pin uses the Wikidata point with a 150-metre precision radius covering the dome footprint; it does not claim an undocumented 1997 stage, camera, or mixing position.

Cover: Jan Kronsell’s [July 2004 exterior photograph](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Jones_Dome.jpg), own work released into the public domain. It shows the stadium under its later Edward Jones Dome name, not the Rolling Stones, the 1997 concert, or its broadcast configuration.