Country superstar Keith Urban, who’s up for “Entertainer of the Year” and Male Vocalist of the Year” among other awards for tomorrow’s CMA Awards telecast on ABC TV (8pm E/W), has recently been accused by an investigative report from Nashville’s News Channel 5. The news station reports that Urban had ‘secretly’ partnered with Ticket Master to hold back 50-200 prime location tickets to be sold on their ticketsnow second-hand broker/scalping website.
What wasn’t really said in the article, which mentions the recent $25 “All For The Hall” tickets as a prime example of tickets being sold by brokers before the general public could buy the ‘set priced tickets, is that there were multiple pre-general public sale opportunities with specific codes for purchase. A ticket broker is going to have the same access to these access-codes to purchase the best tickets they can buy.
What’s your opinion of this, do you think that Keith Urban really partnered with Ticket Master for this scheme or is it simply another case of Ticket Brokers robbing the general public’s ability to purchase the tickets for face value? Do you think ticket brokers (aka legal scalping) should be outlawed?
Thanks to our friends at the9513 for the link to this news story.
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