Rolling Stone magazine reports:
Bruce Springsteen has responded to his fans’ outcry following Ticketmaster’s problem-laden sale of his Working on a Dream tour tickets earlier this week. Countless fans reported technical malfunctions during the onsale, while others complained that Ticketmaster forwarded them to the company’s secondary ticket site, TicketsNow, even though seats were still available through Ticketmaster. The New Jersey Attorney General has also announced an investigation into the sale. Ticketmaster has since issued an apology to Springsteen, and vowed to make amends to confused fans.
More recently, Erin Geiger Smith of Business Insider writes of an apparent victory as the AntiTrust Division will closely examine Ticketmaster.com’s planned merger with LiveNation:
Bruce Springsteen took to the streets – well, his website – in February and threatened that Ticketmaster and LiveNation combining to form one ticketing system would lead to a “near monopoly.”
Bruce’s cause earned a victory this week when the chairman of the Senate’s antitrust committee asked Christine Varney, assistant AG of the Antitrust Division, to investigate the Tickemaster/LiveNation $2.5 billion merger, saying it would “combine two entertainment powerhouses and will transform the concert business” and requires “thorough scrutiny.”
Ticketmaster is “the nation’s dominant primary ticket seller” and LiveNation is the “nation’s largest concert promoter,” the letter to Varney said.
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