How sports is devouring Hollywood

The cost of live sports rights is ballooning — and draining the budgets of media companies for other kinds of programming.

Are you ready for some football? Sure hope so! ’Cause that may be virtually the only thing left on television after the NFL negotiates rich new media rights deals ahead of the season.

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