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May 15, 2009
Ticketmaster still messing with the Boss and his fans
When I testified alongside Ticketmaster chief Irv Azoff a few weeks back, he and his army of flacks assured me and the Congress that the Bruce Springsteen ticket fiasco in February was a one-off--it wouldn't happen again. Fans would pay regular prices, not be re-directed to Ticketmaster's legal scalping subsidiary known as Ticketsnow. Well according to the Washington Post, it has happened again, for a show right in the nation's capitol where a New Online Ticket Flap Thwarts Springsteen Fans. Excerpt: "There are what now appear to be chronic problems with how Ticketmaster uses its secondary market ticket reseller TicketsNow," said Springsteen manager Jon Landau in an e-mail. "We would like our audience to know that this is a problem concerning Ticketmaster and its wholly owned subsidiary TicketsNow. Neither Bruce nor his management have any control whatsoever over these two troubled entities." In a short New York Times followup, Landau adds:
In a statement at Mr. Springsteen’s official Web site, brucespringsteen.net, his manager, Jon Landau, wrote that there “appear to be chronic problems” with how Ticketmaster uses TicketsNow, and that he and Mr. Springsteen “deeply resent the abuse of our fans.” The Department of Justice has not yet acted on the proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Pre.vious testimony blog has more on why we say "Just Say No."
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at May 15, 2009 02:18 PM
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