The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Sept. 30 to eliminate its sports blackout rule and remove itself as a regulatory shield to the National Football League’s decisions to prevent sports fans from watching live games.
The rules require local broadcast TV stations to black out a game if a team didn’t sell a certain percentage of tickets, and prohibit cable and satellite operators from airing events that were blacked out on a local station.
“It’s a simple fact: the federal government should not be party to sports teams keeping their fans from viewing the game,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said ...
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