The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that there are 14 paid streaming providers in Canada that offer sports as all or part of their programming, compared with just two a decade ago, according to Convergence Research, which publishes an annual report on Canadians' television viewing habits. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says Canadian sports fans had a "streaming wake-up call" in 2017 when U.K.-based DAZN purchased the exclusive digital broadcasting rights in the country to all NFL games, followed by English Premier League football rights in Canada the next year. More recently, hockey fans learned that all national regular-season Monday night games in English would be moving from Rogers's Sportsnet to Amazon's Prime Video for the next two seasons. There has been a "massive change in how content is consumed" over the past 10 years, amid the introduction of new competitors through digital platforms, said Dan Berlin, an assistant professor of sport media at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prof. Berlin said there are some advantages to this trend of "fragmentation" -- both for consumers who now have more choices and the sports leagues that accrue more revenue from selling a combination of rights deals.