Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, November 25th.

Today on Forbes, Stream and Beam,

how you'll watch sports in the future.

The Utah Jazz aired games locally on the same regional cable channel

for more than 30 years until AT&T Sportsnet Rocky Mountain,

as it was known in its final iteration, announced last October it was laying off its employees and shutting down.

In search of a new broadcast partner, the NBA's 23rd most valuable team became one of the

earliest adopters of a trend that's sweeping the sports media world, so-called,

quote, stream and beam.

Any over-the-air broadcast television station, like Sinclair's Channel 14 KJZZ, could produce

and beam the team's games to anyone in the Salt Lake City market with a pair of rabbit

ears antenna. But streaming

was a trickier proposition. Like many NBA teams whose cable deals crumbled, the Jazz

suddenly controlled its own digital rights and had to figure out how to launch a direct-to-consumer

streaming service in a matter of weeks. Jazz president Jim Olson says, quote,

We needed experts in the business, and as fast as we needed to move, we weren't prepared

to try to do the whole thing all on our own.

Enter the company Kissway, one of several streaming tech providers positioning itself as a key

player in the evolution of the multi-billion

dollar local sports media landscape. The New Jersey-based company helped design and launch Jazz

Plus before the start of last season, fully customized with alternative language broadcasts,

data tracking, and compatibility across two dozen connected devices. Similar opportunities exist with

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