{"id":71824,"date":"2026-04-15T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-subsidiary-operated-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:59:02","slug":"us-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-subsidiary-operated-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-subsidiary-operated-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster subsidiary operated monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict in states\u2019 lawsuit says concert giant stifled competition, raising pressure for changes to ticketing market<\/p>\n<p>A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/ticketmaster\">Ticketmaster<\/a> subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of US states.<\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan federal jury deliberated for four days before reaching its decision Wednesday in the closely watched case, which gave fans the equivalent of a backstage pass to a business that dominates live entertainment in the US and beyond.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/15\/live-nation-ticketmaster-monopoly-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict in states\u2019 lawsuit says concert giant stifled competition, raising pressure for changes to ticketing market A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of US states. A Manhattan &#8230; <a title=\"US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster subsidiary operated monopoly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-subsidiary-operated-monopoly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster subsidiary operated monopoly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}