NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asked to testify to – Business News
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked Monday to testify earlier than Congress about his league’s broadcast offers, the most recent step in Washington to deliver more scrutiny to the skyrocketing prices of watching a recreation.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, asked Goodell to reply questions concerning the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 at a listening to scheduled for June 10.
That act at the moment protects the NFL and different leagues from antitrust motion, with groups allowed to pool their media rights collectively into huge TV packages.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked to testify earlier than Congress about his league’s broadcast offers. AP Photo/John Raoux
The listening to will look at “the extent to which” the law “has been used by the professional sports leagues to harm consumers and whether potential legislative remedies may be needed to address that harm,” Jordan wrote Goodell.
The Post has sought remark from the NFL and from Jordan’s workplace.
Recent months have seen elevated scrutiny of professional sports activities leagues – particularly the NFL – amid issues it’s change into too expensive and complex for followers to catch video games within the age of streaming.
In April, the Justice Department launched an antitrust probe into the NFL, with a authorities official beforehand telling The Post: “This is about affordability for consumers and creating an even playing field for providers.”
The listening to will look at “the extent to which” the law “has been used by the professional sports leagues to harm consumers and whether potential legislative remedies may be needed to address that harm,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote. REUTERS
And Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has warned the NFL may lose its antitrust exemptions if it sticks too many stay video games behind paywalls.
He instructed the matter may come down to how streaming is assessed.
“There’s a live question at this point about whether putting games on Netflix or YouTube TV or other entities like that … is that a sponsored telecast or is that something else?” Carr informed The Post in March.
“And if it’s something else, then it’s not clear that the antitrust exemption applies,” he added.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has warned the NFL may lose its antitrust exemptions if it sticks too many stay video games behind paywalls. AP
A February FCC submitting famous NFL video games aired final 12 months on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Netflix, YouTube and 6 different streamers — probably costing an estimated $1,500 to watch each professional soccer recreation.
“For decades, Americans enjoyed turning on their TV & quickly finding the game they wanted to see. Yet watching your favorite team play isn’t as easy these day,” Carr wrote in a Feb. 25 post on X.
