The proposed merger between ticketing company Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation won approval today from the U.S. Justice Department, according to Yahoo! News. The idea of the two music business giants uniting has been heavily criticized by Bruce Springsteen, among others. In February last year, the Boss wrote on his official blog that, “the one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a near monopoly situation in music ticketing.”
Jan 25
2010
06:10 PM ET
Justice Department approves merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation
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great Ticketmaster is awful, thieir half their seats to ticketsnow, before tics go on sale, to rape the consumer
I really do think there is a lot of value added in the $15 ticket fees charged by TicketBasterd.
All concert tickets will now include a $2.75 “Merger Fee.”
nice.
now ticket fees will be just about the same amount as the actual ticket itself. So 2 tickets ($50 each) will probably balloon to a grand total of around $200+.
This is ridiculous. We have anti-trust laws for a reason. I friggin’ hate both of these companies but the thought of both of them merging makes my skin crawl. Wow can’t wait to buy tickets from TicketNation with $50 surcharges. Ffffff
I thought the Obama administration was suppose to be for the little guy?
Well, there goes going to ANY concert.
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