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Major League Baseball is the next stop in the federal government’s antitrust tour of professional sports. According to Bloomberg News, the Justice Department, which opened a formal investigation into the NFL last week over how the league licenses its broadcast rights, plans to extend that scrutiny to MLB and the other leagues operating under the…
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will be an American hero if he can keep NFL games on television and away from amid DOJ investigation.
Amazon Prime Video executives are increasingly confident they will gain exclusive rights to the Super Bowl soon, but FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr doesn’t seem to be a fan. In a social media post on X, Carr highlighted a recent column from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic in which an Amazon executive expressed confidence that the…
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.
