Streameast covers US and international sports broadcasting — who has the rights, how much they paid, and how a fan in Cleveland or Charlotte actually watches a Tuesday night Champions League match. Here is how we work.
Sourcing
Primary sources come first: official broadcaster pricing pages, league press releases, SEC filings where the parent companies are public, and the trade press that gets the story before anyone else. Sports Business Journal, Sportico, the Front Office Sports newsletter, and Front Row at the New York Times do most of the heavy lifting in this beat; we credit them by name when we quote their reporting. Twitter is where we hear about a story; it is not where we verify it.
When two outlets report different numbers — and on a $76 billion NBA deal, they will — we list both, attribute both, and tell the reader which we find more credible and why. We do not blend numbers from different sources into a single number that did not exist before we wrote the article.
Fact-checking
Anything involving a price, a date, a channel number, or a subscription tier gets checked against the broadcaster’s published page on the day the article goes live. NBA League Pass tiers, NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV pricing, Apple’s MLS Season Pass cost — these things move, sometimes mid-season, and an out-of-date number is worse than no number. Quotes are checked against the original press conference video or transcript. Editorial features are reviewed by a second editor before publication.
Update cadence
Broadcaster pages and league guides are reviewed at the start of each season for the relevant sport — late summer for the NFL, late October for the NBA, early March for MLB and the MLS — plus any time a major rights deal is announced or a price changes. Editorial features keep their original publish date and gain a dateModified timestamp when we have substantively revised the analysis. Typo fixes do not count.
Corrections
Email [email protected] with what you saw and where you saw it. We commit to acknowledging within 48 hours and publishing a correction within five working days where the error is confirmed. Corrections appear at the foot of the article with the original wording preserved if the change is material to the meaning.
Independence
We do not run affiliate links to broadcaster sign-up pages. We do not have commercial partnerships with Apple, ESPN, Peacock, Paramount+, YouTube TV, or any other service we cover. Display advertising sold through standard programmatic networks pays the bills. No broadcaster, league, or rights holder has influence over what we publish, when we publish it, or how we frame it. This is the only model under which the writing is worth reading.
Disclosure: AI-assisted research
We use large language models to help with research — pricing tables, chronology checks, first-pass drafting of broadcast schedules, translation of foreign-language source material when we cover international rights. Every piece is reviewed, fact-checked, and signed off by a named human editor before it goes live. Nothing publishes without human editorial oversight. If a piece reads as if a robot wrote it, that is an editing failure on our end; tell us, and we will fix it.
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