On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. The NFL’s broadcast antitrust exemption will be a focal point of the proceedings.
And it will not be pretty.
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The Committee has released a 26-page interim staff report regarding the SBA, with the title calling it a “special-interest antitrust exemption gone awry.” The report deals solely with the NFL — how the broadcast antitrust exemption came to be, how it has evolved, and whether the NFL has violated its terms by putting games behind paywalls.
The report at page one contains a strong accusation: “Through this
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