Edition No. 87 · Thu 17 Sept 2026 · Story 33 of 56

Desperately Seeking Channel-Surfing Nirvana

Puck

Big Ten fans need eight platforms this fall, and distributors are still fighting over who owns the aggregation layer.

Interest score

Newsletters × what it touches on this site × movement. It ranks, it does not reorder the digest.

How this is measured

Each factor is 1.00 when it has nothing to say, so a missing input never sinks a story. The full working is on the method page.

  • 1.50Interest score32 of 56 in this edition
  • 1.00NewslettersCount not recorded yet, so neutral
  • 1.50On this siteWhat it touches: places, clubs, leagues
  • 1.00MovementNew this week

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