Hopping between streaming services and TV networks to follow your favorite team’s ups and downs has become an inconvenient and expensive fact of modern life.
Fans wanting to follow along their team’s progress throughout the regular NBA season, for example, will have to access ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video to catch every game.
Earlier this month, the issue prompted the U.S. Justice Department to open an anti-trust investigation into the NFL concerning complaints that watching football has become too pricey for viewers at home. But fragmentation of sports rights matters for advertisers, too.
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