The largest ticketing company in the U.S., Ticketmaster merged with concert promoter Live Nation in 2010 with conditions that barred the companies from tying their services together. Lawmakers and antitrust advocates are pushing the Justice Department to break up the company, arguing the merger should have been blocked and efforts to check Ticketmaster’s behavior in the years since have failed.
The largest ticketing company in the U.S., Ticketmaster merged with concert promoter Live Nation in 2010 with conditions that barred the companies from tying their services together.
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The U.S. Justice Department sent out a new raft of information requests in its antitrust probe of Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s ticketing arm Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. amid concerns the company isn’t cooperating with the investigation, according to people familiar with the probe.