Live Nation Entertainment vs News Corp (Class A)
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Beverly Hills live entertainment (NYSE: LYV) $23.2B FY2024 revenue (+6.7%); Ticketmaster 550M+ tickets, Taylor Swift Eras Tour $2.08B, DOJ antitrust breakup case, competing with AEG Presents.
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Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is a Beverly Hills, California-based live entertainment company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LYV) as an S&P 500 Communication Services component — operating as the world's largest live entertainment company through three integrated business segments: Concerts (promoting and producing 40,000+ events annually featuring 5,500+ artists at Live Nation-operated and third-party venues worldwide), Ticketing (Ticketmaster — the dominant US and global ticketing platform processing 550+ million tickets annually), and Sponsorship & Advertising (brand partnership and naming rights revenue across Live Nation venues and events) through approximately 44,000 employees globally. In fiscal year 2024, Live Nation reported revenues of $23.2 billion (+6.7% year-over-year), with concerts segment revenue growing on sustained post-COVID touring normalization and stadium-scale demand for A-list artists (Taylor Swift's Eras Tour — the highest-grossing concert tour in history at $2.08 billion globally in 2023-2024 — Beyoncé Renaissance tour, Coldplay, Morgan Wallen creating record venue sell-throughs). CEO Michael Rapino has executed Live Nation's vertically integrated live entertainment flywheel for two decades: artist management (Front Line Management), concert promotion (Live Nation Concerts), venue operation (House of Blues, Palladium, Amphitheater network — 350+ owned/operated venues), and ticketing (Ticketmaster) — creating a system where artists book through Live Nation-managed agents, play Live Nation-promoted shows, in Live Nation-operated venues, with tickets sold exclusively through Ticketmaster, capturing revenue at every transaction layer.
News Corp Class A shares (one vote each); same underlying $10.1B FY2024 revenue business as NWS; WSJ, Dow Jones, HarperCollins, REA Group; Murdoch family Class B supervoting control structure.
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News Corp Class A (Nasdaq: NWSA) represents the voting shares of News Corp, a global media and information services company controlled by the Murdoch family through Class B supervoting shares, founded as the successor entity when the original News Corporation was separated in 2013 into Fox Corporation (broadcast and cable news entertainment) and News Corp (publishing, digital real estate, and information services). Headquartered in New York City, News Corp generated approximately $10.1 billion in revenues for fiscal year 2024 (ending June 2024) under CEO Robert Thomson. The Class A shares carry one vote per share, while Rupert Murdoch's family trust holds Class B shares with 10 votes per share that maintain controlling governance—a structure common in media companies founded by entrepreneur families who wish to retain editorial and strategic control through public capital markets financing.
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