Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations with respect to rebates for certain video pro… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations with respect to rebates for certain video programming blackouts, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025
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.
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- FOX CORPORATION
- NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
- CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
- CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- FOX CORPORATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Natl Economic Council (NEC)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 888: Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-888/
"H.R. 888: Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-888/.
H.R. 888, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-888/.
[H.R. 888: Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-888/)