The most unexpected outcome of Super Bowl LIX wasn’t on-field, but in-stream. Tubi, the Fox-owned ad-supported streaming service, managed to deliver lower latency than the event’s cable broadcast feed—an achievement that defies even the most fashionable expectations in the world of OTT sports delivery. According to a post-game analysis from TAG Video Systems and Witbe, two seasoned players in video monitoring, Tubi on Fire TV recorded the lowest end-to-end streaming latency of any Super Bowl LIX streaming platform, trailing the Fox feed on Charter’s Spectrum TV (the reference point for this study) by just 2.6 seconds. However, contrasting reports have emerged, such as a Super Bowl analysis from Phenix, an interactive streaming platform provider, which puts Tubi at 26 seconds…