'Senate Hearing on Ticketmaster Planned After Taylor Swift Ticket
Ticketmaster Planned After Taylor Swift Ticket
) is following
up last week’s open letter to Live Nation over “dramatic service failures” during the
The senator
and her across-the-aisle counterpart on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer
Mike Lee
(R-Utah), jointly announced the hearing, with a date and witness list forthcoming
Klobuchar said
the hearing will examine the effects of consolidation across ticketing — namely that a lack of
Lee added
that consumers “deserve the benefit of competition in every market, from grocery chains to concert
senators, Live
Nation and Ticketmaster are said to be under investigation by the Justice Department as to
The probe,
according to The New York Times, predates this current debacle involving Swift’s tour presale
Ticketmaster has
apologized for the debacle, which started Nov
15 when
millions of Swift fans overwhelmed a presale for her Eras Tour — causing site crashes and hours-long
We are
working hard on this,” Liberty Media CEO and Live Nation chairman Greg Maffei said in
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