Legal Opinion
Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership and Wgn Continental Broadcasting Company v. National Basketball Association
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 4, 1992No. 91-1434PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
WGN-TV, channel 9 in Chicago, is called a superstation because cable systems throughout the nation carry its signal. During the 1990-91 season WGN telecast 25 games of the Chicago Bulls, one of 27 teams in the National Basketball Association. During the 1991-92 season WGN will telecast 30 of the Bulls’ regular-season games. This is a boon to fans, for, apart from the seven contests broadcast on network TV, the remainder of the Bulls’ 82 regular-season games appear on SportsChannel, which is available only on cable. It is a boon as well to the Bulls’ owners, who…
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