Fans and policy advocates fighting to end the NFL’s sports blackout rule may have already won—even if the rule is still on the books.
The number of blacked-out football games went from 16 last season to just two this year. This, ahead of an expected FCC decision in the spring to drop the rule that prevents a cable or satellite service from airing a game blacked out on a local station. Also, a bill introduced in Congress seeks to gut the NFL’s antitrust exemptions.
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