Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961
Long titleAn Act to amend the antitrust laws to authorize leagues of professional football, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams to enter into certain television contracts, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)SBA
Enacted bythe 87th United States Congress
Citations
Public lawPub. L. 87–331
Statutes at Large75 Stat. 732
Codification
Acts amendedSherman Antitrust Act
Titles amendedTitle 15—Commerce and Trade
U.S.C. sections created15 U.S.C. §§ 1291–1295
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 9096 by Emanuel Celler (D–NY) on September 7, 1961
  • Committee consideration by House Judiciary
  • Passed the House on September 18, 1961 
  • Passed the Senate on September 21, 1961 
  • Signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on September 30, 1961

The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 (SBA); (codified 15 U.S.C. §§ 1291–1295) is a U.S. federal statute that amended antitrust laws to allow professional sports leagues to pool the broadcasting rights by all their teams and sign league-wide exclusive contracts with national networks. It also added provisions limiting the days, times, and locations of when and where professional football games could be telecast under this antitrust exemption so they avoid competing with most high school football and college football games.

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