EXTRA: Live Nation Supports Cracking Down On Scalpers

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

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Summary

Just weeks before the summer concert season kicks off, President Trump recently signed an executive order to combat ticket scalping in the live entertainment industry. Despite efforts from several past presidents and lawmakers to address this issue, ticket scalping continues to be a significant problem. Further, the soaring costs of some tickets have been a major headache for music, theater, and sports fans. Dan Wall, the Executive Vice President of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at Live Nation, recently spoke with FOX News Rundown host Chris Foster to explain why his company supports the President's executive order and to debunk myths surrounding scalpers and dynamic pricing in the industry. Wall also explained how ticket pricing works, who collects the widely hated added fees, and what is being done to combat scalpers and bots. We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with Live Nation’s Dan Wall and let you hear more about his take on the live entertainment industry and what can be done to give fans some relief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.
0:05.5	I'm Chris Foster.
0:06.9	The average ticket price for a big concert tour last year was about $136.
0:11.1	It was under $26 in 1996, according to the Live Music Industry Trade Publication poll start.
0:16.5	And that's before they get resold, sometimes for hundreds or thousands more.
0:20.9	President Trump signed an executive order a couple weeks ago, ordering stricter enforcement
0:24.4	of laws about ticket price transparency and the 2016 BOTS Act, targeting scalpers using bots to buy up
0:30.5	tickets before fans can get to them.
0:32.4	The biggest primary ticket seller is ticket master by 2010 since Live Nation Entertainment.
0:38.8	They're being sued by the federal and state governments over accusations of running an illegal monopoly on the live entertainment
0:43.1	business. Dan Wald disagrees. He's Live Nation's executive vice president of corporate and
0:48.1	regulatory affairs and says the company does agree with and appreciate the Trump administration
0:52.3	supporting the fight against high-tech scalpers.
0:55.1	Came on the regular weekday rundown for a conversation we ended up cutting down.
0:58.9	Dissolving.
0:59.8	Thanks for listening.
1:00.9	Giving us a follow.
1:02.3	Now, Dan Wall, Fox News Rundown Extra.
1:09.3	Dan Wall, thanks for coming on the Fox News Rundown.
1:12.2	First, how does what President Trump signed the other day affect your businesses and ticket buyers?
1:18.6	We love what the president has done.
1:20.9	He is shining a light on what we regard as the biggest problem in the live entertainment space, which is the
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