{"id":168098,"date":"2026-04-17T01:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:01:27","slug":"pittsburgh-concert-promoter-calls-ruling-on-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-victory-for-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168098\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh concert promoter calls ruling on Live Nation and Ticketmaster victory for fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                A federal jury in New York has ruled that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster comprise an illegal monopoly, stifling competition and resulting in skyrocketing ticket prices. Independent concert promoter Rich Engler says breaking up the monopoly is a victory for fans. Andy Sheehan reports.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal jury in New York has ruled that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster comprise an illegal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-168098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}