3.0.0 1748 2022-11-01T06:32:24Z 2022-11-01T06:32:24Z Senate S 2019-06-05 116 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-05T21:34:00Z 2019-06-05 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT N Sports and Recreation Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Competition and antitrust Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Professional sports Television and film Sports and Recreation 00 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate 2020-04-17T18:02:14Z Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act

This bill makes the antitrust laws applicable to joint agreements among professional football, baseball, basketball, or hockey teams covering the telecasting of sports contests to the extent that a league of clubs does not (1) expressly prohibit sponsored telecast licensees and any video licensee from intentionally removing the live content of such league from a multichannel video programming distributor during, or related to a negotiation regarding, carriage of the league's games by such distributor; or (2) make a sponsored telecast of a game that is played in the home territory of a member club available to consumers over the internet in any territory in which the game is not available for private viewing through a local television broadcast station or a such a distributor.

The bill repeals the exception that allows the antitrust exemption for such a joint agreement that prohibits televising games within the home territory of a member club on a day when such club is playing at home.

]]> Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act Display Title Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to decrease the frequency of sports blackouts, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1748is/xml/BILLS-116s1748is.xml 2019-06-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.