GOP senator calls for revision to federal law as sports fans pay big on outrageous streaming prices

After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced last week that it would seek public comments on the ongoing shift of live sports from broadcast channels to streaming services, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary is asking for a revision of the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act.

Congress passed the act to let leagues pool their media rights and sell them nationally — a move that helped make NFL games a staple of free network television. Presently, those same collective...