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The FCC recently sought public comments on the ongoing shift of live sports from broadcast channels to streaming services. As of Wednesday, nearly 8,700 comments have been logged.
The league begins to answer the growing questions coming from Washington.
As the NFL faces bombardment from seemingly every corner of Washington over its migration of more games to streaming, the league made its first reported response last Friday. According to a report by Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal, the NFL met with senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to justify…
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…
Spurred on by a change-of-ownership clause in its broadcast rights deal with CBS, the NFL is trying to redo several of its agreements with other networks ahead of the 2026 season. The league could see around a 50 percent uptick in revenue from Paramount-owned CBS, and those talks reportedly have strong momentum. But as seen…
Things have escalated very quickly for the NFL and the federal government with the Department of Justice reportedly opening an antitrust investigation against the country’s most popular sports league. The Wall Street Journal reports that the government has begun an investigation on whether or not the league has “engaged in anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers.”…
A couple of major broadcast station owners have submitted formal comment urging the FCC to protect live sports on over-the-air TV. Fox and Sinclair, both of which own a significant number of major broadcast stations across the country, have responded to the FCC’s inquiry for public comment regarding the future of live sports on free,…
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.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formally approved the proposed merger of broadcast station groups Nexstar and Tegna on Thursday. And while some legal hurdles still remain, this is the closest the two companies have been to combining. The deal was approved after the federal government agreed to Read more... The post DOJ, FCC sign off on Nexstar–Tegna deal as legal fights remain appeared first on Awful Announcing.
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