The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive
audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes
providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a
promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio
programming to the audience member through the interactive device,
querying the audience members, wherein answers to the querying may be
entered by the audience member via the user interface of the interactive
device, transmitting the answers to a central processor, storing the
answers as audience data, processing the audience data into results,
storing the results of the processing of the audience data and
broadcasting the results of the processing of the audience data.