The Streaming Rights War

What you need to know

The broadcast-to-streaming migration that started with marquee NFL and NBA packages is now working its way through every mid-tier property leagues have to sell. Streamers are bidding against legacy networks and each other for exclusive windows, regional packages, and out-of-market rights that used to be bundled together, and the leagues are the clear winners of the resulting price war. Our sports-business desk is tracking which fan bases end up paying more, and in more places, to follow a single team than they did five years ago.