Sports Media

THE NFL IS HEADED DIRECTV-LY TO COURT OVER SUNDAY TICKET

8.31.1998

          U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gawthrop "has allowed
     a lawsuit to go forward" in which three NFL fans claim that
     the league "is illegally forcing fans to subscribe to
     DirecTV's Sunday Ticket pay-cable broadcasts," according to
     Ron Borges of the BOSTON GLOBE.  The suit contends that NFL
     teams "are limiting the number of games on free TV, thus
     forcing fans" of teams who live out of market to spend $139
     or more to get the Sunday Ticket.  The NFL "had asked that
     the suit be dismissed," but Judge Gawthrop "ruled that
     having free broadcasts in limited markets was not enough to
     protect the DirecTV feeds from antitrust challenges and the
     suit could go forward" (BOSTON GLOBE, 8/30).

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