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Entertainment Business Confronts Weak Consumer Demand

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Live Nation Third Quarter Earnings, Video, Concerts, Tickets, Live Nation Earnings, Fees, Live Nation, Concert, Ticket Fees, Ticketmaster, Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster Live Nation Merger, Business News

In this exclusive interview, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and Chairman Irving Azoff discuss the company's strategy for delivering growth in a tough ...

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Radiohead Fans Blast Ticketmaster

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Radiohead Concert Tickets, Radiohead New York Tickets, Radiohead Tickets, Paperless Tickets, Radiohead Roseland Ballroom, Music, Radiohead Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster Paperless Tickets, Radiohead New York, Radiohead, Radiohead New York Show, Ticketmaster, Radiohead New York Concert, Culture News

Many New Yorkers awoke this morning, checked their wireless connections, manned their keyboards, and futilely attempted to purchase tickets for two la...

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Ticketmaster Counters Scalpers

AP | By RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Scalpers, Ticketmaster Dynamic Pricing, Ticketmaster Pricing, Dynamic Pricing, Ticket Master, Ticketmaster Scalpers, Ticket Scalpers, Ticketmaster, Technology News

LOS ANGELES -- Event tickets seller Ticketmaster said Monday that it is introducing new technology to let artists and sports teams raise or lower tick...

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The Worst Company in America: The Final Four

Chris Morran | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Bp, Comcast, Worst Company in America, Consumerist, Ticketmaster, Business News

For the third year in a row, three out of the four slots in Consumerist's Worst Company In America semifinals have been taken by the same three competitors: Bank of America, Ticketmaster and Comcast.

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Corporate Revenge Fantasies

David Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Postal Service, Jetblue, AT&T, Steven Slater, Revenge, Facebook, Comcast, Health Care, Comedy, Ticketmaster, Comedy News

Ever since JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater inflated that slide and some girl quit her job by writing on a whiteboard, I've been having my own corporate revenge fantasies.

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Terms Of Service Process Taken To Court

Econsultancy | Patricio Robles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terms of Service, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Ticketmaster Terms of Service, Ticketmaster, Cfaa, Technology News

If you live in the United States, a warning: you may want to read the terms of service of the websites you use a little more carefully. That's because...

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Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger Approved: Will It Lead To Lower Ticket Prices?

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Concert Tickets, Ticket Prices, Concert Promotion, Department of Justice, Live Nation, Ticketmaster Live Nation Merger, Ticketmaster, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Concert promoter Live Nation and ticket-seller Ticketmaster consummated their merger on Monday after the U.S. Justice Department a...

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Pearl Jam Is No. 1

Tamara Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Verizon, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Verizon Wireless, Los Angeles, Target Stores, Sony Music, Concert, Ticketmaster, Radiohead, Entertainment News

Pearl Jam is probably one of the few bands of this generation who didn't sell out, who didn't say "how high," when the label said "jump."

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Music Video On A Shoestring: Heat Stroke, Heart and Social Media to the Rescue

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atlanta, Ticketmaster, Linda Bolley, Herman Put Down the Gun, Youtube, Indie Music, Musicians, Georgianne Nienaber, Music, Sonia Tetlow, Facebook, Paul Sanchez, MySpace Music, Lee Kennedy, Echomusic, Media News

In today's atmosphere of music industry giants swallowing the little Indie guys, a little band from Atlanta proves that all it takes is heart to produce art and great PR.

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Ticketmaster Takes Artists' Web Content and Runs

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Facebook, Nashville, Webdesign, Music Industry, Ticketmaster, Myspace, Entertainment Industry Echo Music, Entertainment News

In an under-reported move, Ticketmaster-owned Echomusic dumped a whole bunch of artists with 30 days notice, took their content, and in effect cast them into the netherworld of cached pages and lost content.

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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Schumer Plans Bill On Resale Of Concert, Sports Tickets

Wall Street Journal | Ethan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Concert Tickets, Chuck Schumer, Charles Schumer, Tickets, Ticketmaster, Business News

New York Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday unveiled a plan to introduce legislation banning the resale of concert and sports tickets until two days after...

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Ticketmaster: $1B Lost In 4Q

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Nation Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Ticketmaster Live Nation, Live Nation Merger, Ticketmaster Merger, Ticketmaster, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. lost $1.07 billion in the fourth quarter, as the ticket-selling company that hopes to merge with c...

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Live Nation And Ticketmaster In Merger Deal

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Ticketmaster Deal, Live Nation Deal, Ticketmaster Merger, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Concert promoter Live Nation Inc. and ticketing giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. confirmed their merger plans Tuesday and got...

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Ticketmaster, Live Nation In Merger Talks

Reuters | Jui Chakravorty Das and Joe Giannone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger, Ticketmaster Live Nation Merger, Ticketmaster, Business News

Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc and Live Nation Inc may unveil a merger as soon as this week, creating a music industry powerhouse with a combined mark...

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Diller And IAC Board Set To Meet Over Breakup

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barry Diller IAC, Hsn, Diller Malone IAC Liberty, Ticketmaster, Barry Diller John Malone, Lendingtree, Barry Diller Liberty, Barry Diller IAC Breakup, Inerval, Business News

Fresh off his legal victory over Liberty Media, IAC/InterActiveCorp boss Barry Diller is expected to meet with his board this week to restart the proc...

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Barry Diller Snubbed By Bono

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bono, John Malone, Elevation Partners, Barry Diller, Private Equity, Iac, Ticketmaster, Business News

Now that Barry Diller has won his court case against John Malone, he's free to break up IAC (IACI) into 5 pieces. The problem: Convincing investors th...

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Mogul War

New York Post | PETER LAURIA and PAUL THARP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Malone, HSN, Edgar Bronfman, Interactivecorp, Ticketmaster, LIBERTY MEDIA, Iac, Dianne Von Furstenberg, LendingTree, Steven Rattner, Business News

After weeks of trading jabs in the press and in legal filings, Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone delivered a potential knockout punch late last...

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Ticketmaster Inks Deal For NFL Ticket Resale Website

AP | Alex Veiga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Football League, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Ticketmaster, NFL Ticketmaster, Nfl, Ebay, Iac, Stubhub, Business News

Ticketmaster plans to launch a Web site next year where people can resell tickets to pro football games, the latest push by the event ticketing compan...

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How High Tech Scalpers Hoard Hannah Montana Tix

The Wall Street Journal | Ethan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Scams, Internet, Concert Tickets, Concerts, Ticket Prices, Scalpers, Ticketmaster, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Bots, Hannah Montana, Business News

Ticketing giant Ticketmaster is taking aim at what it says is a new obstacle for fans hoping to attend concerts by hot acts like Bruce Springsteen, Va...

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