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Thanks to Nuggets, Avs, Rockies, CU Buffs, Denver could be ground zero for future of sports on TV. And that future looks bleak.

Related Topics: Prime Sports, Colorado Buffaloes

Want a glimpse into the future of sports on television, America? Take a good, long, hard look at Denver. Then shield your eyes before they start to bleed.

“There is no simple answer,” Bob Thompson, a media consultant and the former president of Fox Sports Networks and general manager of Denver’s old Prime Sports Network, told The Denver Post.

“You’re going to have to have multiple platforms (to watch games), where it’s a satellite dish or a cable box and a Roku or an Apple TV box or a Fire stick (from Amazon). You’re going to have multiple options to watch your team, as opposed to how it used to be, where there was this cable bundle that was all things to all people.