Stop Sports Blackouts Act
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2025-01-30
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Committee Activity
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- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2025-01-30
Plain-English Summary
Stop Sports Blackouts Act This bill requires cable and satellite broadcast providers to issue rebates to customers who are denied access to video programming included in their subscription because of programming negotiations. Specifically, where a provider’s negotiations related to the retransmission or carriage of video programming result in the provider failing to offer access to programming included in a customer’s subscription, the customer must be issued a rebate for the affected period. The Federal Communications Commission is directed to issue rules to this effect, including to establish the appropriate amount for such a rebate.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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