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—>After yesterday's news that Comcast was considering getting in on the already-under-antitrust-scrutiny merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the original article has been updated to be slightly less bad. More »
—>When you read about the proposed Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, you might have thought to yourself, "Sure, this would be a merger between the world's largest ticketing company and the largest concert promoter, but I think it could be more horrifying." Comcast apparently agrees, as they're considering getting in on the merger. More »
—>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 »
—>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 »
—>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). More »
—>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. More »
—>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 »
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—>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 »
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