Breaks Down the Bright Broadcast Future of Esports

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MLG describes a shift from ad hoc live streams to packaged storytelling, investing Activision Blizzard resources to build rivalries and stars and hiring traditional-media talent, including a head of programming from Red Bull. Production tackles fast, detail-heavy games by adapting camera work and casting for nonplayer viewers. A concrete rollout is the Overwatch League launches Jan 10, a city-based global league whose preseason set and broadcast quality looks phenomenal.

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