The Justice Department is investigating whether the National Football League is forcing viewers to pay too much in subscription fees, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The full scope of the investigation, run by the department’s Antitrust Division, was not immediately clear.
Complaints about the NFL’s allegedly anticompetitive tactics were raised in a letter from Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, to the Justice Department last month, in which he said that football fans were made to spend “almost $1,000 on cable and streaming subscriptions” to watch games this past season.
Lee added that fans also had to subscribe to multiple