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Disney’s Catch and Kill. Disney wanted to corner the market on sports streaming. A rival blocked them. So Disney bought the rival.
Disney wanted to corner the market on sports streaming. A rival blocked them. So Disney bought the rival.
That bundle would deliver nearly all baseball and hockey programming, a large portion of NFL and college football games, and over 50 percent of televised sporting events overall, in one streaming service. Venu’s launch was blocked last year in federal court by Fubo, on the grounds that putting three different networks with sports broadcast rights under one service would muscle out competition. If the incoming Trump team waves through both the Disney-Fubo deal and the Venu Sports joint venture, letting a company merge to quash a lawsuit, the tone will be set for effective neglect of the concentration of Hollywood.
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