A jury reached a verdict in the long-running "NFL Sunday Ticket" antitrust lawsuit. The suit centered around the strategies the NFL uses as it relates to the distribution of its television broadcasts. A group of plaintiffs who purchased the broadcast package received a $4.7 billion judgment from the jury. Meanwhile, a separate group of bar owners were awarded $96 million in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California on Thursday.
The service broadcasts the league's out-of-market games.A San Francisco sports bar initially filed a lawsuit in 2015, alleging the NFL broke antitrust law by only presenting the league's out-of-market games in a bundle instead of offering a one-team package. The case was dismissed in 2017, but it was reinstated around two years later.It was later designated as a class-action lawsuit and included millions of bars, restaurants and subscribers.