Editing Ticketmaster (section)

=== InterActiveCorp years ===
In 1998, [[USA Network|USA Networks Inc]]., later named [[IAC (company)|InterActiveCorp]] (IAC), purchased a majority stake in Ticketmaster.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/usa-picks-up-ticketmaster-1117469061/|title=USA picks up Ticketmaster|author=((Reuters))|date=1998-03-24|magazine=Variety|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> That same year, the company merged with CitySearch and was renamed Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/1998/08/citysearch-joins-ticketmaster/|title=CitySearch Joins Ticketmaster|last=Bicknell|first=Craig|date=1998-08-13|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> In May 2000, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch acquired TicketWeb Inc., a ticket vendor that sold tickets online and over the phone.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB959636314630051866|title=Ticketmaster Buys TicketWeb In Bid to Diversify Offerings|first=Bruce|last=Orwall|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 30, 2000|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> In 2003, IAC repurchased the remaining Ticketmaster stock that it had previously sold off.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/business/technology-usa-interactive-is-acquiring-lendingtree-in-stock-deal.html|title=TECHNOLOGY; USA Interactive Is Acquiring LendingTree in Stock Deal|last=Hansell|first=Saul|date=2003-05-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>

In September 2006, Ticketmaster President Sean Moriarty told [[NPR]] that Ticketmaster had lobbied several states to enact laws that would limit the ticket resale market to authorized companies. Economists worried these laws would harm competition, but Moriarty expressed the need to reduce corrupt [[Ticket resale|scalpers]] and [[counterfeit]] tickets.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davidson |first=Adam |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6056146 |title=Ticketmaster Targets Secondary Market |publisher=[[NPR]] |language=en-US |access-date=2019-04-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172719/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6056146 |archive-date=2016-03-03}}</ref>

In January 2008, Ticketmaster acquired Paciolan Inc., a developer of ticketing system applications and hosted ticketing systems, after litigation over the potential breach of [[Competition law|antitrust laws]].<ref>[http://documentlibraries.org/reports/acknowledgements/index.html Yahoo! Business] Form 10-Q for Ticketmaster {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219010649/http://documentlibraries.org/reports/acknowledgements/index.html|date=December 19, 2014}}</ref> Also in January, Ticketmaster acquired the UK-based secondary ticket marketplace, Getmein.com.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/2783602/Ticketmaster-moves-into-UK-concert-resales.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/2783602/Ticketmaster-moves-into-UK-concert-resales.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ticketmaster moves into UK concert resales|last=White|first=Dominic|date=29 January 2008|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> And finally, in that same January, Ticketmaster acquired TicketsNow, a ticket reseller in the United States, for $265 million.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120036522352890281|title=Ticketmaster Buys Major Reseller|last=Smith|first=Ethan|date=2008-01-15|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|access-date=2019-04-22}}</ref>

IAC spun off Ticketmaster as its own company in the summer of 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-fi-iac24-story.html|title=IAC to spin off ticket seller|date=2008-06-24|access-date=2019-04-12|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Later in 2008, Ticketmaster acquired Front Line Management, an artist management firm that worked with artists such as [[Aerosmith]], [[Christina Aguilera]] and [[Jimmy Buffett]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ticketmaster-ac/|title=Ticketmaster Acquires Majority of Front Line Management|last=Buskirk|date=2008-10-23|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Front Line CEO [[Irving Azoff]] became CEO of the new company, which was renamed Ticketmaster Entertainment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ticketmaster-takes-stake-front-line-121638|title=Ticketmaster takes stake in Front Line|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 23, 2008|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>