Luukko Discusses View On Rangers' Digital Rights Lawsuit

Luukko Discusses Rangers' Antitrust Lawsuit Against NHL

Comcast-Spectacor President Peter Luukko indicated that the Flyers “don't support” the Rangers suing the NHL over digital rights now, but that they are “in agreement with the Rangers that the boundaries of local and national ‘rights’ needed to be clarified,” according to Tim Panaccio of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Luukko has spoken to MSG President Steve Mills “to better understand the reason" for the Rangers' antitrust lawsuit. The suit targets the NHL’s control of team Web sites and “the league’s right to seize control of future revenues generated by the sites."  Luukko: "With converging media and new media, I think that, as a league, we have to begin to make some decision as to what rights are national and what rights are local. … We believe that combined Web sites works fine. But we want to further discuss what we're going to do with the Internet broadcasts, the podcasts, all the new technology which we don't know yet how successful it will be" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 10/11).