[ajmurmann]

I think you are spot on. Sports has been one of the main reasons left for many to get cable. I've thought a few times about trying to follow soccer more, but I'd need to get cable or YouTubeTV which is like $60/month. I recently started watching F1 again which is $80 for the whole year and it was super easy to sign up and watch on all my devices. It's even set up in a way where it's trivial to stay away from spoilers. I wonder if all access to sports and live events was that easy if they'd grow more as well.

I predict that the networks will either adapt or die as their remaining audience does as well.