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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Liam Reilly, Jill Martin, CNN

(CNN) — 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 streaming services as well as “high-speed internet in addition to a traditional cable or satellite bundle.”

“Much has changed in sports broadcasting since 1961, raising new questions about the NFL’s antitrust exemption. I’m glad the DOJ is tackling this important issue, as I urged them to do last month, and I look forward to hearing the results,” Lee said in a statement today.

The investigation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The NFL said in a statement that the league’s “media distribution model is the most fan and broadcaster-friendly in the entire sports and entertainment industry.”

“With over 87% of our games on free, broadcast television, including 100% of games in the markets of the competing teams, the NFL has for decades put our fans front and center in how we distribute our content. The 2025 season was our most viewed since 1989 and reflects the strength of the NFL distribution model and its wide availability to all fans,” the league added.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The sands of time were starting to run out for the Santa Barbara Waterfront Department as tons of sand began clogging the entrance, but help is on the way.

The federal government through the Army Corps of Engineers is sending about $6.1 million to City of Santa Barbara to pay for dredging possibly twice a year.

A dredge is in the harbor now removing sand, but it was delayed for months to wait until the last possible time when the sand was starting to have an impact of vessels going in and out.

The money for this dredging operation was the last in the budget and new funds had not been promised for the first time in years.  

Waterfront officials were on high alert. They were both looking for other money and timing the last use of the current funds.

If more sand were to arrive, the harbor entrance would be impassable for some vessels.

At low tide last month the depth already was only about ten feet.

The funds were announced by Rep. Salud Carbajal (D)-California from Santa Barbara County.

Mayor Randy Rowse has also been back in Washington D.C. for several reasons, but also to lobby for the funds.

(More details, photos and video will be added here later today.)

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