{"id":55830,"date":"2018-08-27T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/27\/live-nations-grip-on-music-festivals-stifling-competition\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:41:23","slug":"live-nations-grip-on-music-festivals-stifling-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=55830","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation&#039;s grip on music festivals &#039;stifling competition&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent groups call for CMA to investigate US firm\u2019s \u2018anticompetitive behaviour\u2019Independent music festivals have urged the competition watchdog to investigate Live Nation\u2019s dominance of the UK music industry, warning that the summer festival scene is suffering.As thousands of fans returned from this weekend\u2019s Reading and Leeds events \u2013 both controlled by Live Nation \u2013 the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) said the company was able to \u201cstifle competition\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/aug\/27\/live-nations-grip-on-music-festivals-stifling-competition\" target=\"_blank\">Live Nation&#039;s grip on music festivals &#039;stifling competition&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent groups call for CMA to investigate US firm\u2019s \u2018anticompetitive behaviour\u2019Independent music festivals have urged the competition watchdog to investigate Live Nation\u2019s dominance of the UK music industry, warning that the summer festival scene is suffering.As thousands of fans returned from this weekend\u2019s Reading and Leeds events \u2013 both controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}