Archive for 28 April, 2010
“He who dies with the most toys wins,”
Irving Azoff wins!
Azoff has “won often over the years, but his biggest victory might well have come on Jan. 25. That day, the Justice Department blessed a merger between Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant that Mr. Azoff has led since 2008, and Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promotion company.“
Great article in the New York Times that summarises a lot of the personalities and politics involved in the creation and subsequent efforts at justification of the creation of a monopoly on a grand scale with the vertical integration of the live entertainment industry.
28 April, 2010 at 10:17 am Tim Roberts ARTS Australia 1 comment
