The Senate hearing on Ticketmaster kicks off at 10:00 a.m., and it'll be live-streamed.
Today, the witness list has been announced for the Senate Judiciary Committeeās Antitrust Panel. The hearings are investigating problems consumers had had with Ticketmaster, with the disastrous situation that unfolded when sales of tickets forĀ Taylor Swift's upcoming concert crashed the company's website, leaving fans unable to buy tickets.
This list of witnesses U.S. SenatorsĀ Amy KlobucharĀ (D-Mn.) andĀ Mike LeeĀ (R-Ut.) are calling include:
- Joe Berchtold, President, and CFO, Live Nation Entertainment (which owns Ticketmaster)
- Jack Groetzinger, CEO, SeatGeek (a New York-based ticketing platform and Ticketmaster competitor, which recently lost a seven-year contract with Brooklynās Barclays Center to Ticketmaster after just a year
- Jerry Mickelson, CEO, and President, JAM Productions (a Chicago-based concert promoter founded in 1972)
- Sal Nuzzo, Senior Vice President, The James Madison Institute (a Florida-based free-market think tank)
- Kathleen Bradish, Vice President for Legal Advocacy, American Antitrust Institute (a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that aims to promote competition for the benefit of āconsumers, businesses, and societyā)
- Clyde Lawrence,Ā singer-songwriter for the band Lawrenceā says he looks forward to āexercising our Subcommitteeās oversight authority to ensure that anticompetitive mergers and exclusionary conduct are not crippling an entertainment industry already struggling to recover from pandemic lockdowns.ā
According toĀ written testimony released yesterday, Berchtold will say that Ticketmaster learned "valuable lessons" from the debacle and that a record amount of bot traffic disrupted the sal
TheĀ Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearingĀ regarding Ticketmaster and its presumed monopoly on live entertainment ticketing has been set for Tuesday, January 24, 2023, and will live stream at 10:00 am ET.
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