Games that don’t sell out won’t necessarily be televised if the...
Games that don’t sell out won’t necessarily be televised if the sports blackout rule ends, said a group with pay-TV ties that’s petitioned the FCC to end the regulation (CD March 1 p3). Compulsory copyright statutes “curtail pay TV providers…
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from carrying games” if the FCC junks the blackout rule, the Sports Fan Coalition said in a handout given to Commissioner Robert McDowell. DBS companies are “prohibited from importing” a blacked-out game from a distant market, and “cable providers would have to pay six months of copyright fees for one game,” said the document, a copy of which the coalition filed in docket 12-3 (http://xrl.us/bmybkg). “Broadcasters would likely invoke retransmission consent to limit out-of-market use of their signals.” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was to have visited the FCC Wednesday to meet with McDowell to defend the blackout rule, which the league has supported, the coalition said. An NFL spokesman declined to comment.