What Do Football and Football Have in Common?

The Internet and on-demand streaming services have changed the TV landscape forever. Flipping channels and watching live-TV is a dying behavior with one exception: Live sports. But is that exception about to become part of the new rule? Executives at sporting leagues and TV networks are being confronted with two very troubling data points. From the NYT: “Viewership through the first seven weeks of the N.F.L. season is down by 12 percent in the United States while the audiences for Premier League soccer matches this season, which began in August, are down by nearly 20 percent in Britain.”