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Live Nation faces calls for legislation, possible breakup of Ticketmaster merger at US Senate hearing

By Chris May and Michael Acton
  • 24 Jan 2023 22:35
  • 24 Jan 2023 23:02
Live Nation Entertainment President Joe Berchtold took heat at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today as lawmakers zeroed in on the company’s alleged abuses of monopoly power in the ticketing industry, helped by its acquisition of Ticketmaster in 2010.

Witnesses at the hearing, including antitrust scholars, ticket sellers and event promoters, testified that

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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