A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that...
A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Sunbeam TV Corp. lacked antitrust standing to sue Nielsen under the Sherman Act, an opinion filed Monday said. The broadcaster had alleged it was forced to pay higher prices for…
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a inferior product when Nielsen replaced its paper diaries with the Local People Meter to extrapolate TV ratings. A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said the lower court correctly determined that none of the three companies Sunbeam suggested had been excluded as potential competitors to the TV ratings market were “willing and able to enter the capital intensive television audience measurement industry and compete against Nielsen.” Therefore the lower court correctly held that Sunbeam lacked antitrust standing to pursue the litigation, the court said.