01.24.23
Sen. Whitehouse on Live Nation's Concert-Promotion Services in a Judiciary Hearing
January 24 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing entitled: "That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment." The hearing focused on Live Nation leveraging its dominant position in concert-promotion services to pressure venues into agreeing to use Ticketmaster for ticketing services. The hearing was spurred by the widely publicized debacle surrounding Ticketmaster’s handling of Taylor Swift concert tickets.