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- BUSINESS, Page 66Business NotesANTITRUSTToo Little of A Good Thing?
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- As the college football season gets under way, universities
- are competing hard on the field. But the Federal Trade
- Commission charged last week that 63 major schools represented
- by the College Football Association have conspired with Capital
- Cities/ABC to avoid competition in the marketplace. The
- complaint alleged that a five-year, $300 million contract
- between the C.F.A. and Capital Cities would illegally limit the
- number of games on TV.
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- Under the contract, ABC and its ESPN cable affiliate would
- have sole broadcast rights to Saturday games between C.F.A.
- opponents beginning next year. Other participating C.F.A.
- schools may sell TV rights to local stations on other days.
- Capital Cities/ABC and the C.F.A. denied the charges in the
- complaint. Among other things, they noted that home games of
- Notre Dame, a C.F.A. member, will be on NBC. An FTC judge in
- Washington is to try the case.
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