Why Disney Is Going Over-the-top With Sports Streaming

Disney (NYSE: DIS) ruffled a few feathers earlier this month when the magical media empire announced it would be splitting ties with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) for content distribution. Disney revealed that it plans to make its movies and TV shows publicly available through a new "over-the-top" (OTT) digital-streaming solution. OTT is basically any sort of streamed media that doesn't require a cable company to distribute it -- essentially every internet streaming service is an OTT.