#streaming-rights

#streaming-rights

When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on the radio rules. You get to walk around and do stuff to the pleasant background sounds of the crowd. Sometimes you hear the crack of Cal Raleigh's bat hammering the ball into the stands one or 60 times. There's just one problem: spoilers.

Fans in the United States looking to get their European soccer fix can get plenty of it through CBS Sports and its streaming platform, Paramount+. CBS hold the exclusive English-language broadcast rights for the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, as well as rights to show some EFL (the English Championship, League One and League Two), Carabao Cup, and Italian Serie A games this season. Most of those games are available to watch exclusively via the Paramount+ app - here's what you need to know.

The first games of football season loom, and with them, the high-profile contract renegotiations for the stations and streamers that air them. Last night, Fox and YouTube TV fired off dueling statements indicating they were at loggerheads on their latest deal renewal. The way Fox tells it on an attack-ad-style microsite: "Google is attempting to use its market power to pressure Fox to agree to unfavorable and one-sided terms, prioritizing their own interests over a fair agreement for its customer."

Apple has submitted a bid worth at least $150 million a year to stream the races starting in 2026. ESPN isn't going to try to match that.