This chapter discusses the changing landscape of sports broadcasting, highlighting how the rights to sports events are being sliced up among various streaming services. It mentions the speaker's personal experience of paying for multiple streaming services to watch English Premier League soccer games and discusses the evolution of cable television and the rise of streaming services.
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is looking for a “strategic partner” to invest in the massive sports network, which has been struggling in an era of cord-cutting. Peter Kafka explains what it could mean for fans.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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