The Justice Department has opened up an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster and LiveNation, which is ironic because over 10 years ago, they had no serious qualms with this merger. A lot of what came about in the consent degree was essentially like negotiated settlement: okay, we're going to let this go through but here are the terms that you have to agree to. And so what we have now is the ability to actually sue and say, hey, one, you're not complying with the terms of the consent degree, potentially. Or at a very minimum, this investigation is going to look into the potential for what are called structural remedies,.
It’s me, Ticketmaster. I’m the problem, it’s me.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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