20 Nov 2022

CBC’s Canada Tonight: Ticketmaster’s Monopoly Power and the Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco

by Andrew Frank | Date: 20 Nov 2022 | posted in: Media Coverage | 0

Ron Knox, Senior Writer and Researcher at ILSR, joined CBC’s Canada Tonight to discuss Ticketmaster’s disastrous rollout of the Taylor Swift Eras tour pre-sale. Unchecked corporate concentration, he argues, has created a heavily monopolized and dysfunctional ticketing industry, where artists have no viable alternatives to pursue better service. Watch the segment, which aired on November 20, 2022, below:

Watch the full segment on YouTube here.

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