Penske Media, the dominant force in entertainment industry media coverage which is the new owner of the awards ceremony that disbanded the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and expanded the voting pool to 300 to attempt to avoid the alleged chicanery of the past, supposedly told some of the longtime members that they will not be able to attend the awards in person Jan. 7 in person at the Beverly Hilton's ballroom, but could attend a viewing party elsewhere in the hotel--64 members (about 20 percent of the total) claim that they are going to withhold their final ballots, which are due at the end of this week, unless they get tickets and claim that some of the new members are also unhappy about this:
No comment from the Globes or Penske-owned producers dick clark productions.