{"id":987685,"date":"2026-05-19T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987685"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:01:36","slug":"ticketmasters-monopoly-hits-a-snag-in-state-legislatures-but-its-influence-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987685","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster&#8217;s monopoly hits a snag in state legislatures, but its influence endures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following appeared on May 19, 2026, on Jake Lahut&#8217;s &#8220;Straight from the Hut&#8221; Substack blog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ticketmaster and Live Nation have been executing a lobbying blitz across the country to push for nearly identical bills, which would set price caps on the secondary seller market. It\u2019s a strategy that deflects the mounting public dissatisfaction against them, but it\u2019s not working so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten state legislatures in 2026 \u2014 Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia \u2014 have abandoned various versions of price cap proposals. In a state like New York, the post-merger behemoth of Ticketmaster and Live Nation is spending $25,000 a month on lobbying services from Bolton St. Johns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/straightfromthehut.substack.com\/p\/ticketmasters-monopoly-hits-a-snag\" 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from the Hut &#8211; Substack<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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