Editing Control Data Corporation (section)

===Ticketron===
{{main article|Ticketron}}
In 1969, Control Data acquired 51% of Ticketron for $3.9 million from [[Cemp Investments]].<ref name=ct/> In 1970, Ticketron became the sole computerized ticketing provider in the United States.<ref name=ct>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 8, 1970|page=117|last=Arneel|first=Gene|title=Computicket Folds With $13-Mil Loss, But Ticketron Still Punching Away}}</ref> In 1973, Control Data increased the size of its investment.

Ticketron also provided ticketing terminals and back-end infrastructure for [[parimutuel betting]], and provided similar services for a number of [[Lotteries in the United States|US lotteries]], including those in [[New York City|New York]], [[Illinois]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Delaware]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and [[Maryland]].<ref name=allen>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 14, 1986|page=92|title=Allen & Co's $165-Mil Deal For Ticketron; No Changes Seen}}</ref>

By the mid 1980s, Ticketron was CDC's most profitable business with revenue of $120 million and CDC, which was loss-making at the time, considered selling the business.<ref name=allen/> In 1990 the majority of Ticketron's assets and business, with the exception of a small antitrust carve-out for Broadway's "Telecharge" business-unit, were bought by [[The Carlyle Group]] who sold it the following year to rival [[Ticketmaster]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/business/company-news-ticketmaster-deal-to-get-ticketron.html|access-date=May 30, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Ticketmaster Deal To Get Ticketron|page=4 (section D)|date=February 28, 1991}}</ref>