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Introducing Live Nation Entertainment

04:04 PM, Monday 1/25/10 17 |   |

Well, that didn’t take long. The same day that the Department of Justice announced it would approve a merger between Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation, the companies announced that they are now a single entity. Ticketmaster stock will stop trading today, Jan. 25.

The announcement was short and sweet. The two companies “announced they have completed their merger following the receipt of regulatory clearances and approvals from all government authorities.” Ticketmaster stockholders will receive approximately 1.474 shares of Live Nation common stock for each share of TM common stock they own.

The merged entity is now officially Live Nation Entertainment, with stock ticker LYV.

Of course, that’s the easy part. The next step could likely be eliminating redundancies – the common euphemism for reducing payroll.

--Joe Reinartz

17 Comments leave a comment

  1. 128
    El Perro wrote:

    04:17 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    As concert-goers, we are so screwed.  Get ready for jacked up fees,  and lousier service.

  2. 474
    angie wrote:

    04:26 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    :'(

  3. 160
    Livewolf wrote:

    04:59 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    Get ready:   no kiss, no reach-around, no grease.  We thought we'd BEEN getting screwed for the last 16 years.  That was just a warm-up for what's coming.  

  4. 9
    Hoochie Coochie Man wrote:

    05:10 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    Boycott!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. 12
    rdjr1984 wrote:

    05:14 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    NOOOOOOO!!!!!!  Look out $200.00 Cheap seats, here we come!!!!

  6. 61
    livenationsux wrote:

    05:14 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    WOW... This f%@&in sucks!!! Our government sucks a big fat one. Campaign contributions??? I bet the Board of Directors at LN and TM hooked that up.  Service fees will go up, service will be ***, ticket will cost $10 to print out. The Stock ticker should be SCAM! Thanks Congress, Obama and assistant attorney general Christine Varney  you have f-ed the concert industry!!!!!!

  7. 112
    royboy wrote:

    05:55 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    hey livewolf no box o' chocolates either......my *** stopped bleeding from 8 years of bush *** me in the ass and now *** me master/ticketbastard,i'll just stand from now on....does the reach a round happen with gardening gloves? you know the little bubbles on the palms, it might a sw ell be from don ho's tiny bubbles....ticketmaster had the nerve to ask for a donation on it's site, i've been getting it like everyone else for years,why don't they take their fees and donate them to the vasaline foundation, who in the gov't did they blow??????????

  8. 125
    Emerson Biggens wrote:

    06:24 PM, Jan 25, 2010

    Can you spell B-o-y-c-o-t-t-?

    We have te power of the wallet.

  9. 160
    Livewolf wrote:

    04:38 AM, Jan 26, 2010

    Ideally, we should've started the boycott back in '94 when the first concert went on sale at $100 per ticket (The Eagles).  There is no reason in the world that you shouldn't be able to go to a concert, play, ballgame, or event for $25-$35 plus a $5 convenience charge if necessary.  The rest is just promoter's greed.  Also, I think the artists should step up to the plate more as Pearl Jam did years ago.  I think they would remember back when they were younger & going to things that they didn't have the astronomical funds it now takes to participate in any kind of activity offered by these companies (particularly during a recession of the magnitude we're experiencing at the moment).  In conclusion, I really believe that someone in the Justice Dept. is on the take if they can't see the violations committed by these corporate leaches.  It's time we stopped taking crap from people who only want to squeeze every last dollar they can from us.  I've cut way back on going to shows in the years since high ticket prices were initiated except the odd few here or there.  

  10. 102
    TheKimptonKid wrote:

    07:54 AM, Jan 26, 2010

    Hummmmmmmmmmmm

  11. 2
    zontar wrote:

    08:22 AM, Jan 26, 2010

    How are you going to "boycott" when there's no other choice? If a venue has a box office, you can buy tickets without fees, but many venues don't have box offices, so you have to buy from Ticketmaster, or take your chances buying from somebody on the street

  12. 2
    zontar wrote:

    08:31 AM, Jan 26, 2010

    I just paid a $7.75 service charge on a $27 ticket, plus a $2 facility fee, for the Aragon in Chicago, which does not have a box office, so you buy from Ticketmaster or you don't go



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