The NFL benefits from a limited antitrust exemption, under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 (SBA, codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 1291–1295), which allows professional sports league, like the NFL, to pool and collectively sell broadcasting rights without violating antitrust laws. The NFL appears to be violating the 1961 Broadcast Act, and should lose their antitrust exemption.
When the NFL says 87% of their games are free:
-That doesn't appear to be true based off the Committee's oversight
-What about the other 13% of games???
Fans aren't getting what was promised to them when SBA was enacted.
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— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) June 10, 2026
The 1961 Broadcast Act was designed to help then-struggling sports leagues keep their games widely available on free TV, but now the professional sports leagues definitely are not struggling anymore and the leagues are taking liberties with their exemption while at the same time moving many of their games to paid services like Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc., which makes watching the games much more expensive and hard for fans.
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