Archive for 2024/05


Live Nation/Ticketmaster/DOJ-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday June 1st to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 Twitter: @lefsetz If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Dead & Company At The Sphere

You don’t quite get it until you go there. And that’s what’s so great about the Sphere. Or, to adapt Don Henley’s lyric, we haven’t had that spirit here since 1995 and the advent of mass use of the internet, never mind the launch of YouTube in 2005. Suddenly everybody could see everything. You could […]

Ed Bicknell-This Week’s Podcast

The story of Dire Straits from their one and only manager. iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-30806836/episode/ed-bicknell-181077899/?cmp=web_share&embed=true Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ed-bicknell/id1316200737?i=1000657274743 Spotify: https://spotify.link/qwZ2vE7z1Jb Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/8cd3cdf9-6826-4e69-ac53-a807ce7ef17e/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-ed-bicknell

The Movie Business

No one goes to a movie for the theatre, and all the innovation and investment has been on the exhibition side of the film business for the past two decades. And now the industry is paying the price. Also for being out of touch with the changing world. In all verticals, it’s about niches. Narrower […]