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•Disney’s Sports Merger Reveals a Grim Truth About the Future of Television
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Disney announced that it was combining its Hulu With Live TV service with the independent live-sports streamer FuboTV .
In turn, Disney asked the court system to drop its antitrust lawsuit against Venu Sports , the planned megaproject from Disney , Fox , and Warner Bros. Discovery that would have pooled all three broadcasters’ sporting licenses into one sports-focused streaming service.
DirecTV is launching a $ 69.99 -a-month “MySports” streaming bundle.
Fubo put up a valiant attempt to take on Venu , which would have collectively owned “over half the country’s TV rights to professional and college sports” The combined subscriber counts in the “Fulu” merger add up to 6.2 million .
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