A House subcommittee asked Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino to provide a briefing on Ticketmaster’s ticketing process for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee penned a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino asking the executive to provide a briefing on Ticketmaster's ticketing process for Taylor Swift's Eras tour.
The probe comes just weeks after Ticketmaster bungled the presale ticketing for Swift's upcoming Eras tour.CEO after Ticketmaster bungled the recent sale of Taylor Swift tour tickets.Tuesday asking the executive to clarify Live Nation's ticketing process for the Eras tour and provide a list of actions the company will take to ensure consumers will have better access to live entertainment in the future. Live Nation is the parent company of Ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster said 3.5 million people had preregistered as part of the"Verified Fan" program, which was designed to keep tickets in the hands of actual fans and not resellers, resulting in far more requests for tickets than could be fulfilled.
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