Break's Over, Santa: Ticketmaster Kicks Off Christmas Season in May
We're barely past Easter, but in the minds of the folks at Ticketmaster, the Christmas season has already begun.
We're barely past Easter, but in the minds of the folks at Ticketmaster, the Christmas season has already begun.
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Slumping concert attendance and ticket sales pushed Live Nation Entertainment, a concert promoter that also owns Ticketmaster, into a fourth-quarter loss from a slight profit a year ago. The quarterly loss also exceeds the company's combined losses from the first nine months of 2010.
Fredric Rosen, who led Ticketmaster for 15 years, is poised to go head-to-head against his old company as CEO of Outbox Enterprises, a company that flips Ticketmaster's centralized middleman model of ticket sales on its head.
Barry Diller announced his impending resignation as Live Nation chairman Tuesday, perhaps putting an end to his tussle with the rest of its board for control of the struggling concert promoter and talent agency nearly a year after its merger with Diller's Ticketmaster.
Lawyers for three proprietors of California-based WiseGuys Tickets, indicted on dozens of counts of fraud and conspiracy this week, argue that the company's heavy-handed tactics of snapping up tickets isn't illegal.











