Inside The Battle Over Concert Tickets and Resale [WATCH]

The battle over concert tickets availability, pricing and resale is getting overdue scrutiny from federal and state governments as well as the media.

CBS reporter Brook Silva-Braga spent a year talking to artists, fans, scalpers, and executives from Ticketmaster and StubHub to answer the question: “Why are concert tickets so expensive and so frustratingly hard to get?”

What Silva-Braga found may not be news to real industry insiders. But most fans have no idea how the system works and how it often costs both fans and artists dearly.

Particularly for mainstream journalism, “The Price of Admission: The battle over concert tickets” offers a surprisingly accurate look at the inner workings of live event ticketing.

This first ran on “CBS Saturday Morning.”

Bruce Houghton