The leagues will eventually get around to offering live and on-demand direct to the consumer - the cable networks don't own the statiums or the teams, broadcast

The leagues will eventually get around to offering live and on-demand direct to the consumer - the cable networks don't own the statiums or the teams, broadcast gear is freely available on the open market, and servers are a commodity. Cutting out the middleman is an inevitability. The bigger question in my mind is whether a company will come along to build and market such a solution to the leagues (seeing as how there are many local/minor and foreign leagues that could benefit from similar tech), or whether the larger leagues will build it in-house first.