Skip Oliva: Will the FCC Let Televised Football Be?

The Federal Communications
Commission recently repealed a 1975 regulation banning cable and
satellite operators from televising certain professional sporting
events that were not otherwise made available to local broadcast
stations. This regulation formed part of the so-called blackout
rule enforced by the National Football League. Critics have long
decried blackouts as the byproduct of special government privileges
afforded the NFL. But the truth is a bit more complicated than
that, writes Skip Oliva.

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