The Sports Fans Coalition again told the FCC the...

The Sports Fans Coalition again told the FCC the NFL can use private market negotiations rather than the sports blackout rule to achieve its business goals. Ending the rule would have no effect on the league’s decision to distribute games on broadcast TV “because the lost revenue from broadcast fees would dwarf any potential gains from selling a few thousand more game tickets,” it said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-3 (http://bit.ly/V3Wo1S). The NFL’s true motive in vigorously opposing an end to the rule has “everything to do with the league’s desire to maintain all of its myriad government subsidies, special-interest laws and regulations,” it said. The filing recounts a meeting with FCC Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly.