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Live Nation and Blockbuster announced a three-year contract that will put the promoter's large-scale ticketing system exclusively in 500 or so brick-and-mortar Blockbuster locations. As part of the deal, blocks of tickets to shows ticketed by Live Nation will be available only at Blockbuster locations for the first four hours that they're on sale. The plan will go into effect after Live Nation's Ticketmaster contract expires at the end of the year, as part of the rollout of its own ticketing system. "Our research definitively shows that the vast majority of [...]