If you thought you were paying a lot for your sports-TV package now, just wait until 2030.

London-based research group Ampere Analysis forecasts global sports-media spending will jump 20 percent in the next five years, surpassing $78 billion. The culprits are the recent U.S. deals for the likes of Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, as well as the general emergence of new competition in the global streaming marketplace.

These new MLB and NBA deals alone will be responsible for nearly half ($36 billion) of that eye-popping total. And if the NFL renegotiates its exiting agreements, it’s gonna be an Oh-my-God situation, basically. Many of the National Football League’s current deals run until 2034, and with the league regularly touting how undervalued its alread

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