Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into several sports broadcasters and said it had “reasonable grounds” to believe BT, ITV, Sky, and IMG Media might have broken the rules on competition.
IMG Media owns Premier League Productions, which produces syndicated coverage of England’s elite football clubs to viewers worldwide.
In a statement on its website the CMA—which keeps an eye on markets to prevent monopolies or cartels keeping prices artificially high or running other uncompetitive practices—said, “The investigation relates to the purchase by such companies of freelance services which support the production and broadcasting of sports content in the UK.”…