As DOJ Probes NFL’s Anti-Consumer Broadcast Tactics, You Can Fight The League From Your Couch |
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As DOJ Probes NFL’s Anti-Consumer Broadcast Tactics, You Can Fight The League From Your Couch
Maybe it’s time to jawbone the NFL and other sports leagues to give suffering fans a break in the pocketbook.
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote in these pages about how the National Football League had put profits over fans by selling its broadcast rights to an ever-multiplying panoply of over-the-air and streaming services. It turns out the NFL has not only made life unduly complicated and expensive for fans, but it may have violated federal law in the process.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the NFL’s negotiating tactics for its broadcast rights. Amid a broader “affordability” debate in Washington, it highlights ways in which policymakers can shift the debate, without creating another big-government bureaucracy, to benefit fans in tangible ways.
Football’s Special Privileges
Regarding the Justice Department antitrust inquiry, the Journal noted that the specific “nature and scope of the investigation couldn’t immediately be learned.” But the article also noted an important point: “The Sports Broadcasting Act, passed in 1961,........