In honor of yesterday's Big Game, we're discussing recent landmarks in live sports streaming. Just last week, Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery announced that they're combining forces to create a new sports streaming bundle, and Peacock saw huge success with the first-ever NFL playoff game to be exclusively streamed. These events could mark a change in the fragmentation of streaming sports. In other news, The Athletic's Richard Deitsch explores whether the Big Game will ever be exclusively streamed.

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To read the full stories included in this episode:

• Making sense of the momentous new sports streaming bundle from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery: https://www.thecurrent.com/sports-streaming-disney-fox-warner-bros-discovery  
• Making sense of the momentous new sports streaming bundle from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery: https://bit.ly/3UA6lFt
• Super Bowl XLVI Live Stream Sets Traffic Records: https://bit.ly/49xvaGl
• New sports streaming bundle could be a 'monster' — or a dud: https://bit.ly/42wvRx2
• The ESPN-Fox-WBD sports venture is a counterstrike against Big Tech and rights fees inflation: https://bit.ly/3P0IFqf
• What Peacock's NFL playoff game and Netflix's WWE deal signal for the future of sports streaming: https://bit.ly/3SBaUwm
• Will the Super Bowl ever be behind a streaming paywall? Here's what it'd take: https://bit.ly/3SypF35
• Disney CEO Bog Iger on new streaming bundle partnership: https://bit.ly/3HQUbR1