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Why Live Sports Streaming Still Breaks — And How to Fix It

Why Live Sports Streaming Still Breaks — And How to Fix It

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As live sports rapidly shift to streaming, one of the biggest questions facing the industry is simple:

Can the networks actually handle it?

In this Next TMT Talks x Media Play News episode, David Bloom and Daniel Frankel sit down with Sig Luft, CEO of NetSkrt, to discuss the biggest technical and business challenges facing live sports streaming today.

From CDN bottlenecks and edge delivery to latency, World Cup scale, Netflix's growing pains, and the future of IP-based broadcast infrastructure, this is a must-watch conversation for media and technology executives heading into NAB 2026.

Topics include:

  • Why live sports creates massive CDN challenges
  • The edge delivery problem
  • Why latency matters for sports and betting
  • What Netflix learned from massive live events
  • World Cup and global distribution challenges
  • Why OTT may eventually become 100% of distribution
  • The shift from broadcast infrastructure to IP

#Streaming #LiveSports #CDN #NAB2026 #SportsMedia #MediaTech #NextTMT #WorldCup

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