Sean Moriarty Resigns from Ticketmaster

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. said late Monday that Sean Moriarty, chief executive of its Ticketmaster division, has left the company effective last Tuesday.

The West Hollywood ticketing giant, which plans to merge with competitor Live Nation Inc., did not say in its announcement why it had waited nearly a week to announce the departure of Moriarty, who had been chief executive of Ticketmaster prior to the company gaining a controlling interest in Front Line Management Group in October. As part of that deal Front Line Chief Executive Irving Azoff became CEO of the renamed Ticketmaster Entertainment.

A company spokeman was not immediately available for comment.

Moriarty was director of Internet systems for Ticketmaster’s predecessor, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, before being named Ticketmaster’s executive vice president of product and technology in 2000. He was named chief operating officer in 2004 and promoted to chief executive in 2007.

“Sean’s passion for the company and its people has been profound and his leadership, particularly driving product and technology innovation, has led Ticketmaster’s transformation into a major global ecommerce player,” Azoff said in a statement.

“I’ll always be grateful for my time spent at Ticketmaster with its truly outstanding people and I wish the company every success in the future,” Moriarty said in a statement.

The Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger is undergoing intense anti-trust scrutiny, with critics contending that the new entity would have a stranglehold over the concert business due to its power to control both promotion and seating. The two companies contend that the poor economy necessitated the move, and would result in $40 million in annual cost savings.

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