As mentioned last night, we’ve purchased the full trial transcript from the Sunday Ticket trial. And we still don’t know what to do with it.
The easiest thing to do is start reading it. All 2,506 pages.
The goal will be to focus on one day of courtroom activity and/or one key moment in the trial at a time.
For day one, there was a single key moment. Jury selection.
At only 88 pages, it’s one of the shortest of the 10 volumes that will inevitably strain my retinas and haunt my dreams over the next couple of weeks. So I read it first, pretending I was sitting in the courtroom and observing the proceedings as they happened.
For those who still aren’t entirely sure what the case was about, here’s the summary Judge Philip Gutierrez gave to the prospective jurors on June 5, 2024:
“This is a class action case brought under the federal antitrust laws against the National Football League and its 32 member clubs. The case involves a television subscription package called NFL Sunday Ticket. On Sundays, during the NFL’s regular season, approximately 10 to 13 football games are played between
10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Pacific time.
“Of those, three to four games, including those in which a local team is participating, are broadcast on local Fox or CBS stations. These are referred to as in-market games because they are being broadcast into a viewer’s local television market.
“The remaining games played during that period are not broadcast on viewers’ local Fox or CBS stations. They are often referred to as out-of-market games. NFL football fans and businesses could access the complete live broadcast of those out-of-market games only by purchasing NFL Sunday Ticket. During the period in dispute [i.e., 2011 through 2022], NFL Sunday Ticket was available only through DirecTV, a satellite television provider.
“Plaintiffs allege that the NFL and its teams illegally agreed to monopolize the market for telecasts of NFL games and . . . that through a series of interrelated agreements among the…
Source link : https://www.yahoo.com/news/sunday-ticket-trial-day-one-130849264.html
Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-07-09 13:08:49
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