Ticketmaster/Live Nation: Here’s something to be paranoid about

Posted at: Monday, March 30, 2009, 8:19 am

From a Reuters story on the prospects for the merger, republished on the Billboard site:

Live Nation board member Ariel Emanuel is a powerful Hollywood manager who is also brother of Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff. Ariel Emanuel was also a major Hollywood fund-raiser for Obama’s election campaign.

Julius Genachowski, nominated by Obama earlier this month to be the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was on Ticketmaster’s board until March 10.

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Previously in Hitsville:

A new Ticketmaster Phish screwup
An economist on scalping
Live Nation’s NYC parking fee three-card monte
Ticketmaster’s definition of the word ’scalping’
Bono, noted Live Nation employee, ducks merger questions from DeRo!
The Corgan meltdown—It gets worse
Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and the ’secondary market’
The best article yet on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation debate
Hillary Rosen—She’s baaaack!
Ticketmaster servce fees: Where the money goes
Live-blogging the House hearings on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger
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Liveblogging the Senate’s Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger hearings
Seal & Van Halen in Azoff’s corner!
Updated! 26 questions that should be asked at the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger hearings tomorrow Ticketmaster shareholders sue to stop merger
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Will the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger mean higher concert prices?
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Constantly updated: The Ticketmaster-Live-Nation unholy-matrimony news round-up!
Five arguments against the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger
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The music industry’s Putin
Bad merger coverage
WWBD (What would Bono do?)
Billboard’s analysis of the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger
Springsteen and Landau bash Ticketmaster and Live Nation!
P.S. on Ticketmaster: A case study, starring Bruce Springsteen
Why the potential Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger is a very bad idea
Is Ticketmaster trying to muddle the fees issue?
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3 Comments so far

  1. Jeremiah March 31st, 2009 11:23 am

    People used to tell me Obama was my brand new bicycle.

    I’m thinking he’s somebody else’s same old rusted Schwinn Flyer…..

    Anyhoo, wanna bet there’s a slew of films in the pipeline that have protagonists in positions of power where their objective is to restore dignity to the position?

    Last thought: Obama’s gonna need his Hollywood folks - my suspicion is the Repubs are going to try and convince Ah’nuld to run in 2010….

  2. jinx April 4th, 2009 8:38 pm

    none of this makes me even remotely paranoid. the ftc will make this call. not the fcc. not the white house. different shop. different bosses. it’s a bit of a stretch to imagine emanual or genachoswki trading horses this far from the ranch.

  3. Argus Collingwood April 6th, 2009 10:21 am

    News http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cotown-ticketmaster4-2009apr04,0,517583.story

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