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Comcast Takes FCC to Court: SFC Asks Where Are My Games?

2 Comments 22 January 2010

On January 20th, the FCC voted to close the “terrestrial loophole” on cable calling local sports exclusives anticompetitive. The rule enables competitors to add your sports games to their programming. You should now be able to see your games!

However, Comcast’s legal team has wasted no time. They are already in court fighting the FCC’s order making the erroneous argument that DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket is also anticompetitive, and that marginalizing you is ‘just business’. The Sunday Ticket, however, does not restrict sports fans from watching their games in local markets like Comcast does every day of the week. The bottom line is that they won’t walk away without a fight. Let’s keep the pressure on.






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SFC is the American sports fan’s advocate in the D.C. public policy arena fighting for sports fans in every city across the country.

Sports Businesses, Leagues, and Universities are grasping for our cash left and right. Let's join together to keep their hands off our wallets unless and until we have a say in how that money is spent. Futhermore, we sports fans believe we should be able to watch our games, no matter how we get our media.

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