Harmonic’s latest webinar, The New Playbook for Live Sports Streaming, laid out a familiar notion about how live sports has decisively shifted to streaming, with younger audiences leading the charge. The US infrastructure company—which is in the process of selling its video division to rival vendor MediaKind—name-checked platforms like Apple TV+, Netflix, Peacock, YouTube TV and Prime Video as evidence that major leagues are no longer treating streaming as a secondary outlet. That much is obvious. But what’s more interesting is how Harmonic frames the competitive battleground around not just sports rights themselves, but the live production-to-monetization pipeline. Features like multiview—highlighted via Peacock’s Winter Olympics coverage and Apple’s MLS soccer streams—are being positioned as a new baseline for sports experiences,…