CMA sides with AEG over O2 block booking
The AEG-Azoff MSG 'booking war' looks set to continue after the UK's competition watchdog declined to investigate a Live Nation-brought complaint
News By IQ | 5 December 2017
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has reportedly dismissed Live Nation’s complaint against AEG over its block booking of The O2 in London and Staples Center in Los Angeles, telling the former company it does not intend to open an investigation on competition grounds.
The complaint, lodged in August, related to AEG’s tit-for-tat ‘booking war’ with Azoff MSG Entertainment, led by former Live Nation executive chairman Irving Azoff, over a booking policy that forces artists who want…
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