Handicapping The Upcoming Ticketmaster/LiveNation Hearings [Shotgun Weddings]

Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee's "Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights" (wshew) will hold a hearing on the proposed Ticketmaster/LiveNation merger, and Jim DeRogatis provides a preview. He notes that the committee includes Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who has criticized Ticketmaster's policies in the past, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, a music-biz advocate from Utah who may have a personal interest in the biz's future. As the Democrats control t...

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