Are your concert tickets about to get cheaper?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, Live Nation Entertainment Inc. reached a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) a week into its antitrust trial. The government had argued that the company’s subsidiary Ticketmaster constituted an illegal monopoly over the ticketing industry. As conditions for the settlement, Ticketmaster agreed to provide a standalone ticketing system for third-party use, divest from exclusive arrangements with up to 13 amphitheaters, reserve 50% of tickets for nonexclusive venues, and cap ticketing service fees at 15% for events in amphitheaters it owns.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host today, senior editor Will Kayback. |
| 0:33.1 | Today we're going to be covering the recent settlement that was announced between Live Nation, |
| 0:38.1 | which is the company that owns Ticketmaster and the Department of Justice, which centers on |
| 0:43.5 | alleged monopolistic, anti-competitive practices that Live Nation has engaged in over the past |
| 0:49.6 | decade or so, and promises to potentially change the way that the live events industry works. |
| 0:56.3 | So we're going to get into the degree of reforms that may be part of this deal, as well as |
| 1:01.9 | some of the broader issues in the event space that I'm sure many of you have experienced |
| 1:05.9 | if you've gone to a concert recently or some other kind of live event, and particularly if you bought a ticket |
| 1:11.5 | for that event using Ticketmaster. So excited to get into it, a little bit of a change of pace today, |
| 1:17.0 | but a relevant story in the current news cycle as well. That being said, we also want to flag a piece |
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