A bill to amend the act providing an exemption from the antitrust laws with respect to local blackouts of certain professional sports events in order to terminate such exemption when a home game is sold out, and to prohibit blackouts by stations more than 50 miles from the site of the event.

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Provides that the exemption from antitrust laws extended to agreements covering the telecasting of professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey games shall terminate when a home game is sold out forty-eight hours before the scheduled beginning time of such game. Prohibits blackouts by stations more than 50 miles from the site of the event. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1292)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 29 January 1973

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