Representatives from the Sports Fans Coalition and the National Consumers...
Representatives from the Sports Fans Coalition and the National Consumers League met with aides to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Monday to discuss the coalition’s petition to let the sports blackout rule expire, an ex parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bnpcis). Sunday’s “blackout…
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of a local Tampa Bay, Florida NFL game demonstrates that even under the NFL’s new policy, blackouts persist,” the notice said. “The Commission should consider eliminating or, in the alternative, establishing a two-year sunset of the Sports Blackout Rule so that at the very least, the League’s anti-consumer practice is not subsidized by a Commission rule."