{"id":987634,"date":"2025-10-21T02:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987634"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:49:31","slug":"chris-gowen-will-the-dc-council-strengthen-ticketmasters-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987634","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gowen: Will the DC Council strengthen Ticketmaster\u2019s monopoly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019ve tried to buy tickets for popular events in DC lately, the odds are high that the event sold out in seconds and you were forced to purchase severely marked-up tickets from an online reseller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the DC Council will hold a public hearing on this very issue. Over 25 states have already introduced legislation to stop ticket scalping \u2014 and it\u2019s time for DC to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/thedcline.org\/2025\/10\/21\/chris-gowen-will-the-dc-council-strengthen-ticketmasters-monopoly\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ticketnews.com\/2025\/07\/study-ticket-resale-saved-fans-414-million-in-2024\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sbriesacher","author_link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}