A bill to amend the act providing an exemption from the antitrust laws with respect to agreements between persons engaging in certain television contracts in order to terminate such exemption when a home game is sold out, or when game times differ.

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Provides that any present exemption from the antitrust laws with respect to agreements between persons engaging in specified professional sports for the purpose of television contracts shall be terminated when a home game is sold out forty-eight hours prior to the starting time or when the telecasting of a professional football game is scheduled to begin less than five hours before or less than five hours after the scheduled beginning of an intercollegiate football contest, and tickets for admission to such game are available to the general public at the time of such telecast. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1292, 1293)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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