https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/01/2...your-tele/


Another article looking at the transition of sports rights in a disrupted television future. Speculates alternatives where leagues and teams go D2C through season ticket type services or, consistent with the hypothesis of the prior article, major SVOD services, like Prime, enter the competition for telecasting rights. My guess is that the answer will be more like "all of the above," with such new options taking a share of rights packages, while traditional OTA and cable channels focus on more targeted assets that they can monetize most efficiently (e.g., the NFL, playoff and championship events).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pay-tvs-bleak...58854.html

This one looks at the trend in multichannel service subscriptions. Predictions:

- "With many major sports contracts set to expire in the next few years, analysts predict that the ultimate collapse of the cable TV model will happen when a tech or streaming company finally is granted rights to stream a major sports franchise."
- "[E]xpect a flood of cable programming to start migrating over to streaming in anticipation for the day when cable is no longer a viable platform for networks to reach audiences."