Resumen de United Kingdom: : Regulator refuses to suspend auction for premier league football rights
The rights to broadcast the matches in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, are of an extraordinary value to broadcasters. They are sold as a package by the Premier League. In November 2014, following a complaint by Virgin Media, Ofcom, the UK Communications Regulator, commenced an investigation on whether the arrangements for the packaging of the rights constitutes a restriction or distortion of competition in breach of the Competition Act 1998 and/or Art. 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
