HR 942 · 93th Congress · Sports and Recreation
A bill to amend the act providing an exemption from the antitrust laws with respect to agreements between persons engaging in certain professional sports for the purpose of certain television contracts in order to terminate such exemption when a home game is sold out.
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Introduced2
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.(1973-01-03)
Plain Language Summary
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Provides that the exemption from the antitrust laws with respect to agreements between persons engaging in the professional sports of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey for the purpose of television contracts shall cease to apply with respect to any game when tickets for admission to such game are no longer available to the general public forty-eight hours before the scheduled beginning time of such game. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1292)…
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