FCC Ends Rule That Led to NFL ‘Blackouts’
Source: Time.com
The FCC brushed aside the NFL's objections that blackouts were needed to drum up attendance at undersold games
The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to revoke its support for sports blackouts, in which a sports team can suppress local broadcasts of its games until it has sold a certain percentage of stadium seating. But the FCC said blackouts could continue as part of separate agreements between teams and local broadcasters, raising questions about whether the rule change will really lead to fewer blackouts.
The little-known rule, which was first put into effect in 1975, disproportionately affected NFL games, which were blacked out if the team hadnt sold 85 to 100 percent of its tickets 72 hours before kickoff.
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(22,000 posts)If you lived in an area with a team and the game wasn't near sellout you were SOL. The damn games are becoming too expensive to attend.