NFL Gambles Billions on Trial Over Sunday Ticket TV Package (1)

For years, American football fans who want to spend Sunday afternoon flipping through games in different cities have had to shell out for the National Football League’s Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

That might soon change.

The subscription package, which exclusively carries out-of-market games that aren’t broadcast on local CBS and Fox channels, is at the heart of a multibillion-dollar antitrust case headed to trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Football fans who sued nine years ago claim that the NFL teams and DirecTV conspired to maintain an illegal monopoly on all out-of-market Sunday afternoon games. The arrangement allegedly allowed ...