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May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee When I go on Ticketmaster.ca, it's a totally separate site from Ticketmaster.com.
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee With respect to you guys, is it the same with .com and .ca? What's the presence in the United States versus Canada?
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Okay. Ms. Tarlton, I was reading some articles and there was one where Irving Azoff, former CEO, was at a congressional hearing in the States. I'll just quote what we said with respect to secondary ticket sales. He said, “I never would have bought it. The whole secondary sales a
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ticketmaster represents some sports organizations and sells their tickets.
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee It sells tickets for performances in the arts and bands and all that kind of stuff. Those are two separate markets, I recognize. For example, with respect to the New England Patriots, is it safe to say that you're the official ticket seller for the Patriots?
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee How does Ticketmaster proceed that way? Does Ticketmaster approach sports teams or musicians and ask to be their ticket seller? Do you aggressively go after teams? Do teams come after you? How does that dynamic work?
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Is there any instance whatsoever, whether it's a musician, band, or a sports team, where you would ever hold back tickets and manipulate that market? Do you do that?
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee When you say the content owner, you mean—
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Okay. Is there any instance where Vivid Seats would hold back tickets? I had an experience I talked about at the last meting, whereby through StubHub, I was to buy some Morrissey tickets and I couldn't get the tickets. Then all of a sudden the tickets were for sale on StubHub
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon and thank you for coming in this afternoon. It's very interesting. I do come at this from a unique perspective. I was a major junior hockey owner. I also am a New England Patriots season ticket holder. I have lots of different perspectiv
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Actually, let me just follow up if you don't mind. Can you just talk about your presence in Canada versus in the United States?
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee And then what's most interesting is that in that instance with us at Harbour Station, the promoter at the last minute released a whole bunch of tickets and then there was chaos. There were people who were upset, who overbought. There were tickets back on the market. One of the p
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee Well, can you submit the report?
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal
Canadian Heritage committee I just have one comment. I think the root of the problem in a lot of instances is the promoters. As another example, we had a premium CHL game at Harbour Station, Saint John. So, call it 6,000 seats. We had the event. We felt great about the event. The CHL said to us, “You're o
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Wayne LongLiberal