The Fiber Optic Demand and Its Impact on Sports Broadcasting

NFL+ arrives, and at the end of the show, we’ll take a deep dive into sports rights as the great free radical in the streaming wars and the evolution in sports in general. In between that, people accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of lowballing them. More details on the so-called Apple Watch Pro. And if I told you there’s a global shortage of fiber optic cable, would you be surprised?

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Links:

• NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
• Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
• Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register)
• Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT)
• Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes)

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