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This originally appeared in Friday’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. Lawmakers and appointed officials in our nation’s capital have kicked the anti-NFL sentiment into overdrive…
The first formal investigation into the longstanding antitrust exemption granted to the NFL under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 is officially upon us. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice has begun examining potential anticompetitive practices by the NFL in how it sells its media rights. Under the exemption granted…
Sometimes, writing about what’s happening in the media industry is simply about connecting dots. And with every passing day, some dots are seemingly coming into alignment that are almost too coincidental to not notice. Those dots center on the FCC’s recent interest in sports fragmentation, and the threat the federal government poses to the antitrust Read more... The post Are the Murdochs and Ellisons behind FCC’s recent interest in sports fragmentation? appeared first on Awful Announcing.
The Trump loyalist threatens the league’s antitrust exemption. The post NFL Faces Antitrust Threat from FCC Chair Over Streaming Push appeared first on Front Office Sports.
Federal pressure continues to mount against the NFL as the league places more games on paid streaming services. On Thursday, FCC chairman Brendan Carr issued his strongest statement yet regarding the status of the NFL’s federal antitrust exemption. As it stands, the NFL and other professional sports leagues in the United States are granted antitrust Read more... The post NFL’s antitrust exemption vulnerable if league puts more games on streaming, FCC chair says appeared first on Awful Announcing.
