A Senate antitrust panel will hold a hearing on the lack of competition in the ticketing industry after Ticketmaster’s problems last week managing the sale of Taylor Swift tickets, Senator Amy Klobuchar chair of the panel, said on Tuesday.
Senators Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R-UT), the top Republican on the committee, did not provide a date for the hearing or a list of witnesses.
Klobuchar said, “The high fees, site disruptions and cancellations that customers experienced shows how Ticketmaster’s dominant market position means the company does not face any pressure to continually innovate and improve. We will hold a hearing on how consolidation in the live entertainment and ticketing industry harms customers and artists alike.”
A statement from Ticketmaster denied any anti-competitive practices and said, “We remain under a consent decree with the Justice Department following a 2010 merger, and there is no evidence of systemic violations of the consent decree.”
Ticketmaster added, “We have a significant share of the primary ticketing services market because of the large gap that exists between the quality of the Ticketmaster system and the next best primary ticketing system.”
Taylor Swift, the pop superstar doing her first tour in five years, presented an unprecedented demand, according to Ticketmaster, blaming the presale problems on the demand and an effort to keep out bots runs by ticket scalpers.
For her part, Swift said on Friday, “It is excruciating for me to watch fans struggle to secure tickets as I had been assured that Ticketmaster could handle the large demand.”
Klobuchar was one of three lawmakers who argued in a letter on Monday that Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation Entertainment, the events ticketing giant behind the recently botched sale of Swift concert tickets, should be broken up by the Department of Justice (DOJ)of any misconduct is found in an ongoing investigation.
The DOJ has proven in recent years to be much more willing to file antitrust lawsuits against giant companies, including the ongoing December 2020 lawsuit against Google, and fight mergers.
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