I cover US sports broadcasting for Streameast from a desk in Brooklyn. The beat is essentially three things on a loop: who paid what for which league, who is unhappy about it, and how the average fan ends up with seventeen apps to watch a season they used to get from one cable bill. I have been writing about it since Diamond Sports filed for bankruptcy and somehow that still feels like the most honest framing of the modern American media landscape.
Before joining Streameast I covered the rights beat for a couple of trade publications. I am not a TV critic; I do not care whether the studio show is good. I care what the contract says, what it costs, and what it means for the next negotiation.
What I cover
- The Apple-MLS experiment — three years into the ten-year deal, what subscriber math actually looks like, what the Messi bump did to it, and whether anyone else will copy the all-streaming model
- NFL streaming rights — YouTube TV’s Sunday Ticket, Amazon’s Thursday Night Football, the Peacock playoff exclusive, and Netflix moving in on Christmas Day
- NBA League Pass economics — the price ladder, blackout rules that should not still exist in 2026, and how the new ESPN/NBC/Amazon rights cycle reshapes consumer pricing
- RSN collapse — Diamond Sports, the direct-to-consumer pivots, the league-by-league fragmentation of MLB and NHL local rights
- International football into the US market — Premier League on NBC/Peacock, Champions League on Paramount+, La Liga on ESPN+
Editorial principles
I write what the broadcaster’s pricing page actually says today, not what it said when the press release went out six months ago. If a price moves, the article moves with it.
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