Live Nation Entertainment has announced that it is dropping CTS Eventim for ticketing in North America and replacing it with Ticketmaster, which Live Nation merged with last month..

Live Nation Entertainment has announced that it is dropping CTS Eventim for ticketing in North America and replacing it with Ticketmaster, which Live Nation merged with last month.

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino says the new group would still work with CTS in the UK and did not rule out working with them in Japan and even Germany. In approving the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger last month, the U.S. Department of Justice did not place any conditions on what Live Nation could do, instead requiring Ticketmaster only to sell its Paciolan ticketing operation to Comcast-Spectacor and licence its ticketing software to concert promotions rival AEG. The UK Competition Commission is still reviewing te merger.

01/03/10