Live Nation Inc.

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• How U2's $25 Million Payday from Live Nation Will Affect the Company

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-23

  Julia Boorstin submits: Rock band U2 brought home $25 million this past week, cashing in its Live Nation LYV stock as part of the 12-year deal it made with the concert promoter in March. The band sold 1.6 million shares for about $6 million, putting Live Nation on the...

  Tags: Media, Julia Boorstin, Live Nation Inc.

• Blockbuster / Live Nation Ticket Deal: Win-Win

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-03

  Seth Gilbert submits: Blockbuster BBI wants to be your entertainment superstore. They’ll sell you electronics, rent you a movie or now, even get you into a concert. Tuesday, Blockbuster and Live Nation LVY announced a three year deal to make Blockbuster the brick & mortar retail outlet for...

  Tags: Media, Seth Gilbert, Blockbuster Inc., Live Nation Inc.

• Ticketmaster Dropping Fees - But Will It Help?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-13

  Julia Boorstin submits: Ticketmaster is famous for fees that concert goers love to hate. Now the ticketing giant is experimenting with dropping those fees in an attempt to gain customers in an increasingly tough economic environment. Tickets for the Eagles' upcoming concert will be available without any Ticketmaster TKTM...

  Tags: Ticketmaster Corp., Seeking Alpha, Julia Boorstin, Live Nation Inc., Media

• Live Nation Packs Concert-goers in Despite a Bad Economy

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-08

  Julia Boorstin submits: The pullback in consumer spending hasn't yet hurt the concert business. Live Nation LYV put on 17 percent more concerts in the past quarter and concert attendance rose 5.7 percent. Live Nation, the nation's largest concert promoter, reported strong earnings after the bell on Friday—its third...

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• Live Nation Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-07

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of David Joyce – Miller Tabak and Company. David Joyce – Miller Tabak and Company. I was just wondering if there's any limitation on the volume of sponsorships, like would there get...

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• Will Ticketmaster's New Acquisition Help Beat Live Nation?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-24

  Julia Boorstin submits: Ticketmaster TKTM is taking its business in a whole new direction. Yesterday the ticket behemoth agreed to acquire a majority interest in Front Line Management Inc, arguably the most powerful artist-management company in the music industry, with the likes of artists from Christina Aguilera to Neil...

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• Live Nation, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-15

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Mark Wienkes with Goldman Sachs. Mark Wienkes Goldman Sachs It's clear to see improvement in the metrics on the core business this quarter. What are the risks that you see of that not repeating in the third...

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• Live Nation on Music Track to Increasingly Vertical Business

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-14

  Seth Gilbert submits: Since being spun off from Clear Channel CCU in 2005, Live Nation’s LYV management has oriented the company toward a path of broad, vertical integration. Instead of being just an event promoter, they’ve aimed to transform from a narrowly focused promotion business to a comprehensive music services...

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• High Stakes In Concert Ticket Battle Between Live Nation and Ticketmaster

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-14

  Julia Boorstin submits: Concert promoter Live Nation LYV is preparing to go from being Ticketmaster's TKTM biggest partner to its biggest rival, and it just scored a big coup, a deal that will jump start LiveNation's ticket business. This news sent LYV stock soaring Thursday, while TKTM stock...

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• Ticketmaster Responds, But Street Doesn't Listen

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-13

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Ticketmaster TKTM late Thursday issued a response to the stock market’s big sell-off of its shares on the news that Live Nation LYV has signed up concert venue operator SMG to use Live Nation’s new ticketing service. Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty asserted in a...

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• Ticketmaster Loses Its No. 2 Customer to Competitor Live Nation

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-11

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Live Nation LYV is taking on Ticketmaster TKTM is the music ticketing market, and it is off to a rousing start. This morning, Live Nation announced an exclusive deal to sell tickets for music event company SMG, a subsidiary of the publicly-traded investment fund...

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• IAC/InterActive Corp Is Finally Breaking Up

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-21

  Julia Boorstin submits: It's been nearly a year since IAC/InterActive Corp IACI CEO Barry Diller announced his intention to split up the company into five pieces. It hasn't been an easy process: Diller and Liberty's John Malone, IAC's largest shareholder, battled over whether this breakup should happen, all the...

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• Up Big Since the Fed

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-10

  Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 is now up 3.67% since the 8/4 close prior to Tuesday's Fed Day.  Below we highlight sector performance since then as well.  As shown, Consumer Discretionary is up the most at 7.07%, followed by Tech (6.35%), Industrials (5.08%) and Health...

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• Live Nation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-05-26

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Mark Wienkes - Goldman Sachs. Mark Wienkes - Goldman Sachs Just wondering, today on Warner Music Group's call they talked about moving away from 360-degree deals. Have you seen that in the marketplace? What are you noticing...

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• Live Nation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-03-10

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from David Kestenbaum of Morgan Jason. David Kestenbaum – Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc. Michael, can you just talk about some speculation in the market about AEG doing a deal possibly to sell 49% of themselves to The Garden...

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• Live Nation Update Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-01-14

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions Our first question comes from David Kestenbaum of Morgan Joseph. David Kestenbaum – Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc. Can you give us some kind of idea what the per ticket fee that you are going to be charged...

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Additional Resources

• Nickelback's 2009 North American Tour Ticket Sales 20 Percent Ahead of 2007 Tour

  - 2008-12-22

  LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Live Nation announced today that Nickelback's 2009 tour is off to an exceptional start with over 210,000 tickets sold to date, representing 70% of available tickets sold, with the first date not until February, 2009. Ticket sales in like markets are...

• PR Newswire Entertainment Summary, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008

  - 2008-12-22

  Following is a summary of entertainment news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/. FL53590 12/22/2008 05:28 r f AgencyRoster-Key-Renz BOCA RATON Kay Renz PR Stirs Up the Buzz for the Boca Raton...

• Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour: 58 Shows - 2,350,282 Fans!!!

  - 2008-12-22

  #1 GROSSING TOUR IN HISTORY FOR SOLO ARTIST LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With the completion of Madonna's final show in Sao Paulo, Brazil last evening -- one of eleven record-breaking performances in South America -- the 'Material Girl's' 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour reigns supreme by...

• National Mentor Holdings, Inc. To Hold Fiscal-Year-End Conference Call

  - 2008-12-19

  BOSTON -- National Mentor Holdings, Inc. today announced that it will hold a conference call on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11 a.m. EST to discuss its financial results for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. The call will be broadcast live on National Mentor's investor relations...

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