S. 2414 · 114th Congress
FANS Act
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Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act or the FANS Act
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Dec 17, 2015
Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act or the FANS Act
This bill amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to provide that the antitrust laws shall apply to joint agreements among professional football, baseball, basketball, or hockey league covering the telecasting of sports contests to the extent that any such league does not: (1) expressly prohibit sponsored telecast licensees and any video licensee from intentionally removing the live content of such league from a multichannel video programming distributor during, or related to a negotiation regarding, carriage of the league's games by such distributor; or (2) make a sponsored telecast of a game that is played in the home territory of a member club available to consumers over the Internet in any territory in which the game is not available for private viewing through a local television broadcast station or a such a distributor.
The bill repeals the exception that allows the antitrust exemption for such a joint agreement that prohibits televising games within the home territory of a member club on a day when such club is playing at home.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: FANS Act
Also known as: Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act
Latest action (Dec 17, 2015): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Policy area: Sports and Recreation · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Dec 17, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.