Getting your player ready...
U.S. regulators asked whether they should void a television blackout rule that stops cable and satellite companies from showing professional sports events that lack a sellout crowd.
The Federal Communications Commission in an e-mailed notice Thursday called for comments on a petition filed by five groups that said the rule dating to 1975 “supports blatantly anti-fan, anti-consumer behavior.”
The rule prohibits cable and satellite companies from carrying sporting events blacked out on local broadcast television stations to promote home-game attendance.
