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The DOJ’s “Bad Blood” with Ticketmaster

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Justice Department sues Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster, on antitrust grounds. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issues a consequential ruling on gerrymandering, even as his own political leanings come into focus. And an American prepares to be sentenced in Turks and Caicos, despite a full-court press from U.S. politicians pleading for mercy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, May 24th, and we've never seen a breakup song quite like this. We start here.

0:08.0

The US government sues the owner of Ticketmaster.

0:12.0

It is time to break up Live Nation Ticketmaster.

0:15.8

Why the Justice Department says Live Nation is killing the music industry.

0:20.2

The Supreme Court upholds a controversial voting plan.

0:23.0

They siphoned off 30,000 black voters.

0:26.0

But there's even more controversy surrounding the justice who issued this ruling.

0:30.0

And that's a nice tourism economy you've got there, Turks and Caicos.

0:33.3

Shame is something to where to happen to it.

0:35.0

What these politicians are saying is, let's find another way around this.

0:38.4

The not so subtle American threats to the nation enforcing its hardline gun laws.

0:45.4

From ABC News, this is start here.

0:48.0

I'm Brad Milkie.

0:50.0

Remember a couple years ago when Taylor Swift fans basically broke ticket master?

0:57.8

Millions of fans crashing the website during this week's pre-sale event

1:01.3

before tickets became available to the general public.

1:03.6

No, tell you right now this is a joke.

1:05.9

I literally feel like I'm about to burst into tears right now.

1:09.7

It took me nine hours to see it, you know, because I was still waiting in the queue.

1:13.8

But when I got in, yeah, there was nothing left.

1:16.3

As tickets went on sale for her era's tour, people couldn't access the only site selling

1:21.2

tickets for it, even though they had gone through all these

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