Remember how last year there were rumours of some kind of merger between live music conglom AEG and ticketing giant Ticketmaster?
I seem to remember TV firm Cablevision, who have a venues business, would have been involved in some way, making for some kind of complicated three-way corporate transaction.
Well, rumours are again surfacing that Ticketmaster is contemplating a merger with a big music promoter. The ticketing giant has had a diversification strategy for a while, of course, not least because former major client Live Nation is now a major competitor thanks to the launch of Live Nation Ticketing.
If promoter Live Nation is getting into ticketing then why shouldn't Ticketmaster - which already has an artist management division thanks to its merger last year with Irving Azoff's Front Line - get into event promotion?
The new rumours seem less specific regarding which concert promoter Ticketmaster is thinking of acquiring or merging with, though gossipers are again speculating that some kind of AEG and Ticketmaster deal could as yet come to fruition, if only because they now share a key enemy, I mean competitor, in the mighty Live Nation.