DirecTV Settles U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit Over Dodgers Channel

By Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg News

DirecTV settled a U.S. antitrust lawsuit that accused the satellite-television provider of colluding with its competitors during a 2014 standoff withTime Warner Cable Inc.over a channel devoted to theLos Angeles Dodgers.

DirecTV won’t share competitively sensitive information with rivals and agreed to a compliance program to make sure it abides by the settlement, according to an agreement filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles.

“When competitors email, text, or otherwise share confidential and strategically sensitive information with each other to avoid competing, consumers lose,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder ...