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The Penalty Is Declined: The NFL’s Exclusive Streaming . . . This Note analyzes the NFL’s exclusive streaming agreements through the lens of federal antitrust law It argues that these agreements would probably survive a challenge under section 1 of the Sherman Act First, the Sports Broadcasting Act’s antitrust exemption for “sponsored telecasting” likely encompasses streaming services
Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 - Wikipedia The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 (SBA); (codified 15 U S C §§ 1291 – 1295) [1] is a U S federal statute that amended antitrust laws to allow professional sports leagues to pool the broadcasting rights by all their teams and sign league-wide exclusive contracts with national networks It also added provisions limiting the days, times, and locations of when and where professional
NFL Tackled By Antitrust Litigation: Route to Renegotiation . . . The SBA allowed leagues like the NFL to negotiate broadcasting agreements directly with networks on behalf of all teams in each league Sports leagues were granted the ability to make horizontal agreements (those made between competitors) by pooling team broadcasting rights, without violating antitrust laws
The Sports Broadcasting Act’s Decaying Authority Highlighted . . . Subsequently, Congress included language within the SBA stating that the law did not protect any agreement from antitrust law that permitted the broadcasting of “all or a substantial part” of any professional football game on any Friday after 6 p m EST or on any Saturday between the second Friday in September to the second Saturday in
The NFL-Amazon Agreement vs. Antitrust Legislation: The . . . Therefore, where antitrust legislation would normally prohibit an agreement like the NFL broadcasting deals, in order to protect the audience, teams, and networks, the Court decided professional sports leagues are free to make horizontal agreements by pooling team broadcasting rights for telecasting
Flag on the Play?: The NFL’s Expansion to Streaming The Sports Broadcasting Act allows the NFL to sell all of its teams’ broadcasting rights collectively without violating antitrust laws However, as there is a strong argument that this antitrust exemption does not apply to the NFL’s recent deals with streaming platforms, it could be a matter of time before these deals are challenged
National Football League 345 Park Avenue - judiciary. house. gov The Committee on the Judiciary is examining the sufficiency of federal laws related to the “[p]rotection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies ”1 Under the Sports Broadcasting Act (SBA), major sports leagues receive broad immunity from antitrust liability for agreements related to the broadcasting of their games on network television 2 However, the sports