{"id":45884,"date":"2026-04-09T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45884"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:42:50","slug":"justice-department-investigating-nfl-over-games-on-paid-platforms-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45884","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department investigating NFL over games on paid platforms, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games to multiple platforms \u2014 paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an &#8220;even playing field for providers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/football\/nfl-investigation-justice-department-8835a936*link=*7B*22role*22:*22standard*22,*22href*22:*22https:\/*www.wsj.com\/sports\/football\/nfl-investigation-justice-department-8835a936*22,*22affiliate*22:*22*22,*22target*22:*22_blank*22,*22absolute*22:*22*22,*22linkText*22:*22Wall*20Street*20Journal*22*7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0first reported that the DOJ opened an investigation into the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nfl-justice-department-anticompetitive-tactics-licenses\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games to multiple platforms \u2014 paid streaming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}