{"id":3519,"date":"2020-03-14T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2020-03-14T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:37:07","slug":"covid-19-forces-sports-streaming-providers-to-act-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 forces sports streaming providers to act fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has the focus of the world right now (and rightly so). The pandemic has massive global health and economic consequences, with all sorts of freedom of movement and other restrictions being imposed by governments worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last week or so, we have seen (particularly, in the western world) a focus on banning large gatherings of people. This has inevitably led to the mass cancellations or postponements of sporting events, including the Australian F1 GP, PGA Tour Golf, NBA, ATP Tour tennis and more. These postponements\/cancellations are having large knock-on effects, including for broadcasters of these sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time when available live sports content is dwindling (due to the postponements\/cancellations), sports streaming services are having to come up with new ways to maintain or (hopefully) grow their user bases. This is the opposite to entertainment streaming services that you would expect to be registering a high number of streamed hours as more and more people are quarantined or just working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For sports streaming services, however, the inability to have live content, severely dents their offering to consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking a look at some examples of how sports streaming companies are responding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n