The Big Ten Conference Signs a Massive Media Rights Deal Worth $1 Billion Annually In the fight for college football supremacy, the Big Ten sneaks past the SEC with a $1 billion deal splitting games between Fox, CBS and NBC. By Rachyl Jones
NFL Sunday Ticket is the Crown Jewel of the Streaming Wars, and Tim Cook Wants It Live sports is the last unconquered arena for the streaming wars, and Apple can actually afford to lose the kind of money on the NFL package that DirecTV was losing — as much as $500 million per year, or more. By Observer Staff
Everything ESPN Is Doing to Boost Ratings—And Why It Isn’t Working Turns out ESPN's new streaming service, ESPN+, won't carry live access to the network's channels. So will fans pay for both? Not likely. By Anne Easton