As the league demands 50% more from its media partners, the DOJ and FCC fire back — and sports viewership becomes a political flashpoint
The NFL picked a fight it assumed it could win — and found Washington waiting on the other side. Having leveraged a change-in-control clause triggered by Paramount's merger with Skydance to reopen media rights negotiations ahead of schedule, the league is demanding at least 50% more than its current $2.1 billion-a-year deal with CBS.
