Google Sued By Football Subscribers Wanting Info On NFL ‘Conspiracy’ – By Hank Berrien (Daily Wire) / Aug 23, 2023
Subscribers of Sunday Ticket, the sports package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable to fans on local affiliates, filed a lawsuit against Google, which has a multibillion-dollar deal with the NFL allowing it to exclusively hold the broadcast rights for Sunday Ticket games shown on YouTube starting with the upcoming season.
In the 2019 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversing the district court’s dismissal of the original lawsuit for failure to state a claim of an antitrust action, the case was explained this way:
“Each NFL team entered into a “Teams-NFL Agreement” with the NFL to pool their telecasting rights and give the NFL the authority to exercise those rights. Acting on behalf of its teams, the NFL entered into two additional agreements licensing the teams’ telecast rights. Under the “NFL- Network Agreement,” CBS and Fox coordinate to create a single telecast for every Sunday-afternoon NFL game, and the NFL permits CBS and Fox to broadcast a limited number of what are known as local games through free, over-the-air television….”
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