Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

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Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

Other short titles	Act of September 30, 1961
Long title	An 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 by	the 87th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 87–331
Statutes at Large	75 Stat. 732
Codification
Acts amended	Sherman Antitrust Act
Titles amended	15
U.S.C. sections created	15 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 Judiciary Passed the House on September 18, 1961  Passed the Senate on September 21, 1961  Signed into law by President Kennedy on September 30, 1961

The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 affects Title 15 of the United States Code, Chapter 32 "Telecasting of Professional Sports Contest" (§§ 1291-1295)^[1] The act amended antitrust laws to allow, among others, sports leagues to pool the broadcasting rights by all their teams and sign league-wide exclusive contracts with national networks.