The US government may soon get its hands out of the business of sports blackouts. Acting Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Mignon L. Clyburn sent out a proposal today to dismantle the commissions rule that requires sporting events to be blacked out under certain conditions. The FCCs rules, which came into effect in the 1970s, are very limited and do not account for the vast majority of blackouts, according to the commission. Sports blackouts caused by the FCC rule are only those that block national cable and satellite networks from showing a sporting event thats been blacked out on local broadcast stations.
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