Time Warner Puts Name on Walnut Creek Amphitheatre

Raleigh, N.C. — Time Warner Cable has purchased the naming rights for Raleigh's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre.

Terms of the five-year deal weren't disclosed. The concert venue will now be known as Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek.

The amphitheater has been without a title sponsor for more than a year, after a deal with Alltel expired.

The deal with Time Warner, which has a two-year renewal option at the end of five years, will allow the cable company to select shows from the concert schedule to telecast on video-on-demand for cable customers, officials said.

Time Warner also expects to be able to offer advance-sale tickets to select performances to cable customers.

Concerts already scheduled for the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion are:

• Widespread Panic, April 25 and 26
• Kanye West with Rihanna, N.E.R.D, & Lupe Fiasco, May 9
• Tim McGraw with Jason Aldean & Halfway To Hazard , May 17
• James Taylor & His Band of Legends, May 28
• Toby Keith with Montgomery Gentry, Carter's Chord, Mica Roberts, & Trailer Choir, June 21
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Steve Winwood, July 12
• Brad Paisley, July 19
• Rascal Flatts with Taylor Swift, Aug. 2
• Kenny Chesney with LeAnn Rimes, Aug. 22
• Brooks & Dunn with Rodney Atkins, Sept. 6
• Martina McBride, Oct. 4