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mergers
UK May Block Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger, Save Universe
While U.S. authorities are still trying to figure out whether letting the Godzilla and Megalon of ticket-selling join forces is a good thing, the U.K. has come to the rescue of concertgoers worldwide. The Competition Commission declared that the merger would "will limit the development of competition in the market for live music ticket retailing." More » -
mergers
Ticketmaster And Live Nation Agree To Merge
That booming evil laughter you heard echoing across the sky earlier today came from the board room where Live Nation and Ticketmaster agreed to an all-stock merger between their two blighted companies. Ticketmaster Chairman Barry Diller says the merger will benefit customers, who are frequently "frustrated by their ticket buying experiences." Oh! So by merging the two companies most responsible for those frustrations, we'll cancel them out! This is doubleplus good, right? More » -
scalpers
Congressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For 'TicketsNow' Website
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D) of New Jersey has asked the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate the relationship between Ticketmaster and its reseller website, TicketsNow, after consumers who tried to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets encountered technical problems that prevented purchase, and were then redirected to TicketsNow where prices were "hundreds of dollars above face value" (actually, more like "thousands of dollars," based on our check just a few minutes ago).
Update: Bruce Springsteen speaks out against the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow stunt, and reminds everyone why a Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger would be very bad. We've reprinted his letter below. More »
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concerts
Ticketmaster, Live Nation Consider Merging, Destroying Concertgoing Forever
The two companies most responsible for making your next live entertainment experience a financial disaster may announce a merger as early as this week, reports Reuters and the WSJ. If it goes ahead, the new company will apparently call itself Live Nation Ticketmaster, not "Satan's Boxoffice" as one might expect. The merger will raise antitrust issues, but if Sirius/XM has taught us anything, it's that those issues can be ignored at the expense of consumer choice and pricing.
"Ticketmaster, Live Nation in merger talks" [Reuters] (Thanks to WeSeed!)
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ticketmaster
Ticketmaster Is Evil And Must Die
Ticketmaster is an evil monopoly that steals cash from defenseless consumers. They are infinitely more evil than their hated 30% surcharge would suggest, and they must be destroyed. More »
9:30 AM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Carey Alexander
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debacles
Radiohead: Flooding Forces Fans To Circle Parking Lot For 3 Hours
It seems this weekend's Radiohead concert in the D.C. area was a spectacular failure. The show was billed as rain or shine and rain it did — fans are reporting that they were turned away from the parking lot and forced to circle the venue for the entire duration of the show. More » -
ticket sales
Live Nation To Challenge Ticketmaster, Sell Fans More Junk
The nation's largest concert promoter, Live Nation, is ditching Ticketmaster to build its own ticketing system. Live Nation may not be as soul-crushingly evil as Ticketmaster—we hear they issue refunds!—but their goal in breaking away is to squeeze more profit from customers by hawking "additional merchandise." More » -
recommendations
Live Nation Continues To Rock!
Every time Carrie writes us, I talk about what a sexy little minx she is. To be frank, I don't know her. She could be fat as the queen of all sea cows for all I know; a decade of heavy cocaine use might have turned her nose into a flabby, cartilageless sack. But she's got spunk! She's got moxy! And she is unwaveringly optimistic! And hey, that's sex appeal. More » -
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wolfmother
Wolfmother Won't Rock, But Live Nation Will Refund
We know it's more fun for us to drop companies, Vlad Tsepes-like, upon a sharpened pole. Watch 'em squirm. But we're compelled to recognize good customer service, if only to prove that we are not wholly sadistic overlords. More »
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