The House Judiciary Committee is requesting a briefing from the heads of the NFL , NBA , Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League on whether they should still get an antitrust exemption for coordinating TV broadcast rights, including a rule that allows for game blackouts.

The Sports Broadcasting Act gives leagues immunity for broadcasting deals for games on network television, including provisions that permit blackouts of home games in that team’s broadcast area. Such blackout requirements were meant to ensure that ticket sales remained robust in a market.

In letters sent on Monday , Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), who chairs an antitrust subcommittee, wrote that despite the rise of subscription services and online st

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