Query: Live Nation Entertainment formed from the merger of Live Nation and Canada.

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Live Nation Entertainment <=SEP=> Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company , formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster . It owns , leases , operates , has booking rights for and/or equity interests in a large number of U.S. entertainment venues . The leadership consists of Greg Maffei ( chief executive officer of Liberty Media ) as chairman and Canadian Michael Rapino ( previously chief executive officer of Live Nation ) as president and CEO of the company .   The merger that formed the company was opposed by members of the United States Congress , business rivals , and the Computer & Communications Industry Association ( CCIA ) , whose members include Google , Oracle , Microsoft , Yahoo , Intuit , and eBay .   The merger initially received regulatory approval in Norway and Turkey in 2009 . In October 2009 , the United Kingdom 's Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the merger . On December 22 , 2009 , the Competition Commission reversed its decision and cleared the proposed merger . The United States Justice Department approved the merger on January 25 , 2010 , with some conditions to which both parties agreed .   As part of the agreement with governments to merge , Ticketmaster had to sell its ownership in its self-ticketing company , Paciolan and Live Nation Entertainment was placed under a 10-year court order prohibiting it from retaliating against venues that choose to accept competitors ' ticket-selling contracts , and it `` must allow venues that sign deals elsewhere to take consumer ticketing data with them '' .   In addition , the new company had to license a copy of its ticketing software to two companies -- Anschutz Entertainment Group ( AEG ) and either Comcast Spectacor or another `` suitable '' company -- so that both companies could compete `` head-to-head '' with Ticketmaster for venues ' business . AEG was given the option after five years to buy the software , replacing it with something else , or partnering with another ticketing company .   Live Nation Entertainment bought AC Entertainment , a Knoxville Tennessee music company in October 2016 .

Ticketmaster <=SEP=> Ticketmaster Entertainment , Inc. is an American ticket sales ( primary ticket outlet ) and distribution company based in West Hollywood , California , with operations in many countries around the world . In 2010 it merged with Live Nation ( events promoter ) to become Live Nation Entertainment . As a primary ticket outlet , most US ticket sales for US venues are fulfilled at Ticketmaster 's two main fulfillment centers located in Charleston , West Virginia , and Pharr , Texas . Typically , Ticketmaster 's clients ( promoters ) control their events , and Ticketmaster acts as an agent , selling the tickets that the clients make available to them .   On 10 January 2008 , Ticketmaster completed the acquisition of Paciolan Inc. , a developer of ticketing system applications and hosted ticketing systems , after litigation over the potential breach of antitrust laws . In January 2009 , Ticketmaster acquired a UK ticket exchange site , Getmein.com . Getmein is a ticket exchange site that allows sellers to list the tickets at whatever price they choose . Ticketmaster are well known thanks to a Channel 4 documentary to have staff using company credit cards to buy tickets for all events and then sell them on Getmein at double and triple face value in order to make more of a profit and rip genuine fans off and lead them to believe it is ticket touts doing so , despite having measures in place to stop touts using software to buy multiple tickets   On 10 February 2009 , Ticketmaster and Live Nation , the largest concert promoter , officially announced their merger deal . After almost a year of review , the two companies merged on 25 January 2010 , under the name Live Nation Entertainment . To satisfy one of the United States Department of Justice 's conditions of approval for the merger ,  Ticketmaster sold Paciolan to Comcast Spectacor in March 2010 .