Awful Announcing
"I think there is a growing anger amongst the American people at baseball. I think, you know, the temperature is rising here in Congress to do something about it."
The lawsuit claims Comcast "wants to extinguish competition from Altitude so that Comcast can pocket more of the money it takes from consumers each month for sports programming."
The panel noted the NFL's antitrust broadcast exemption doesn't apply to deals with pay-TV outlets like DirecTV.
Further sports properties are being carved out of Disney's deal with Fox to appease regulators.
The deal was approved without conditions, and could have big impacts on Turner, Disney, Fox and Comcast.
On Wednesday, the federal Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T’s DirecTV unit, alleging that DirecTV...
