Ending the “Lawnie Pass” promotion is one of several changes coming to the venue in its 2025 concert season.
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Ticketmaster, which merged with Live Nation in 2010, is the world’s largest ticket seller. The company owns or controls more than 265 of North America’s concert venues and dozens of top amphitheaters.
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The ruling won’t immediately bring relief for concertgoers. But it could cost Live Nation hundreds of millions of dollars and perhaps force the company to sell some of its concert venues
Michael Rapino, who has led the company since it was formed 21 years ago, defended the dominant position Live Nation has taken over the last two decades.
Live Nation wants the exhibits disqualified from the trial, saying the messages reflect “off-the-cuff banter, not policy” between two personal friends who do not work together.
More than half of the nearly 40 states that had signed on to the Justice Department’s landmark litigation voiced serious concerns over the deal.
Judge Arun Subramanian has told jurors that evidence will be presented over the next six weeks before they’ll be left to decide whether Live Nation and Ticketmaster broke antitrust laws.
The largest U.S. venue owner and ticket seller faces claims by the U.S. Justice Department and more than three dozen states that it is illegally monopolizing the live music industry and should be forced to shed its Ticketmaster unit.
In his lawsuit, the concertgoer claims that the tasing at a Phish concert caused several injuries, including damage to his cochlear implant.
Ticketmaster controls 80% or more of major U.S. concert venues’ primary ticketing, according to the FTC.
Performers, politicians, scholars, rival promoters and other ticket sellers argue that Live Nation wields far too much power in the live entertainment industry.
Everwise Credit Union, the venue’s naming-rights partner, was known as Teachers Credit Union until June 2023.
The changes announced Thursday do not mean that company will eliminate the surcharges, but simply that the fees will be made clear to the consumer.
Pearl Jam, inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, previously performed in central Indiana in 1991, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2010.
The legislation is meant to protect an individual’s right to sell or give his or her ticket to an event to someone else, should they choose to do so.
The entertainment promoter, which already manages the historic building and performance venue by Mass Ave, has a pending deal to buy it from the Murat Temple Association.
The $2.75 drop is meant to enhance the concert experience at Klipsch Music Center and The Lawn at White River State Park.
A naming-rights lawsuit brought by The Murat Temple Association against California-based event promoter Live Nation and Evansville-based
Old National Bank has been dismissed.
Beverly Hills, Calif.-based entertainment company says lease gives it the right to change venue’s name to Old National Centre.
The Murat Temple Association, a Shriners affiliate that owns the iconic building, is suing Live Nation and Old National Bank
over a naming-rights deal announced March 16.
The Murat Temple Association is a Shriners affiiate that owns the Murat Centre, which on March 16 was renamed the “Old National
Centre” in a three-year deal between the bank and Live Nation.
Group that owns downtown’s Murat Theatre is considering legal options to prevent the venue’s name from changing to Old National
Centre.
