CLASSIC: The Ticketmaster Racket
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ticketmaster was founded in 1976, and since that time it's grown to be one of the most powerful forces in the industry -- whether you've gone to symphonies, concerts or plays, odds are you've run into Ticketmaster while trying to get your seats for the show. Yet numerous people allege that this company wields enormous, dangerous influence over artist, venues and fans alike. Tune in to learn more about the rise of Ticketmaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, conspiracy realist. We are talking about something that has become a bit of a hobby horse for us at this point, not too long ago. |
| 0:18.0 | Noel and Matt and I were going to get tickets to go see a concert together and we ran into the fees. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh God, the fees, the fees! |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, this isn't an oldie but a goodie that is painfully relevant still to this day. |
| 0:30.3 | I mean, we're approaching an absolute monopoly with Live Nation and Ticket |
| 0:34.7 | Master kind of like the people selling the tickets being the same people that own |
| 0:38.0 | the venues it's not great. Mmm let's jump right in and see how much more expensive it's gotten since even May 2019. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, the host of Betrayal. |
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