In 1953, the district court largely sided with the DOJ and issued an injunction preventing the NFL from placing restrictions on televising games in the home territory of a team playing an away game. In 1961, the NFL moved to limit the distribution of games, again signing the first deal to sell broadcast rights for all 14 of its teams as a single package. When the district court again said no, the NFL turned to Congress for help. And just a few months later, Congress passed the Sports broadcasting Act of 1961, which allowed the leagues to pool their individual broadcasting rights for sale to a single purchaser. (01:09–01:20)
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Asserts that in 1961, the NFL signed a deal to sell broadcast rights for all teams as a single package.
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