Jury Orders NFL to Pay $4.7 Billion in Sunday Ticket Case
A jury sided with the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket and ordered the league to pay $4 billion in damages.
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NFL in legal hot water over Sunday Ticket
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Sounds like they’ll win on appeal or the current sitting judge could toss it out.Jury Orders NFL to Pay $4.7 Billion in Sunday Ticket Case
A jury sided with the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket and ordered the league to pay $4 billion in damages.
Yeah he didn’t sound too pleased with the way the plaintiffs operated. I imagine it gets tossed.
I don't mean to change the subject, but where was that at the last 20 - 30 years? There is a football shoe on that page that is $220.
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This part was interesting
It was revealed during the trial that the league declined an ESPN proposal to take over the offering last season and price it at $70, and include single-team packages.
If it’s been proven that there was a competitive, consumer friendly offer on the table from ESPN, and the NFL instead colluded with YouTubeTV to keep the price of SundayTicket sky high, this case won’t be getting thrown out
It was revealed during the trial that the league declined an ESPN proposal to take over the offering last season and price it at $70, and include single-team packages.
If it’s been proven that there was a competitive, consumer friendly offer on the table from ESPN, and the NFL instead colluded with YouTubeTV to keep the price of SundayTicket sky high, this case won’t be getting thrown out
The NFL has argued that Sunday Ticket was a premium product thus they kept the price high. The counter argument was that the NFL kept the price high so it wouldn't pull eyeballs from NFL national games on CBS and Fox and damage that relationship.
Another issue in the lawsuit was the inability for consumers to purchase Sunday Ticket for a single team. For example if a Bears fan in Seattle wanted to have access to only Bears games, they had to buy the entire package instead of paying possibly a lower price just Bears games. ESPN was willing to offer that but it was rejected by the NFL.
With games being spread between CBS, Fox, ESPN, Prime and Netflix I don't see how Sunday Ticket will still be relevant in the future.
Another issue in the lawsuit was the inability for consumers to purchase Sunday Ticket for a single team. For example if a Bears fan in Seattle wanted to have access to only Bears games, they had to buy the entire package instead of paying possibly a lower price just Bears games. ESPN was willing to offer that but it was rejected by the NFL.
With games being spread between CBS, Fox, ESPN, Prime and Netflix I don't see how Sunday Ticket will still be relevant in the future.
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