ESPN, Disney Sue Dish Over ‘Unauthorized’ Sling TV Day Pass
ESPN sued Dish Network on Thursday in the Southern District of New York, accusing Dish of violating the terms of its license through its new Day Pass service. In…
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The Data Wars Hold a Lesson for ESPN’s New NFL Partnership
The recent tie-up between the NFL and ESPN, in which the league took a 10% stake in the sports media giant, contains a big unanswerable question: Will it ensure the…
Bob Iger Won’t Split the Baby in Two After the ESPN-NFL Deal Closes
The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday morning will report its third-quarter earnings, and along with the standard recap of how things are shaking out at its theme parks, film…
YouTube’s Hiring of Disney Exec for Sports Role Prompts Lawsuit
After more than two decades at Disney and ESPN, Justin Connolly has departed the Magic Kingdom to join YouTube in a newly created role as global head of media and…
Ex-Disney CEO Eisner Finally Buys the Hollywood Soccer Playbook
Long before Hollywood actors transformed Wrexham into a household name, former Disney chairman Michael Eisner considered something similar with his own English soccer…
MLB TV Outage Spoils 8 Opening Day Games
A month after MLB voiced its displeasure about ESPN’s lackluster promotion of baseball, the league’s own streaming service, MLB TV, suffered a multi-hour outage on…
Red-Hot Ad Market Helps ESPN Offset Impact of Rising Rights Fees
Exiting the Venu Sports joint venture will cost Disney approximately $50 million, but that’s a drop in the bucket compared to what the Mouse House spends on the rights…
Fubo’s Hulu Coup Leads Sports Stocks‘ 9% Surge to Start Year
Sports stocks jumped 9% to start 2025, more than double the gains of the broader market, as Fubo’s David versus Goliath victory over a deep-pocketed competitor led the…
YouTube TV vs. Fubo Sports Bundle Could Be Next Streaming Fight
Fubo CEO David Gandler is having a great start to 2025 after spending much of last year engaged in what he described as an existential “duel” for his sports-first…
Sporticast 412: Fulu? Hubo?? A New Streaming Roll-Up Emerges
On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including Disney’s…
Fubo-Disney Deal Will Create New Sports Streaming Service
Sports fans are about to get yet another option for streaming games. Fubo and Disney’s Hulu + Live TV service will be merging, with Fubo dropping its lawsuit against…
ESPN Preps for Direct-to-Consumer Launch With Disney+ Integration
Beginning Wednesday, an ESPN tile will appear on the homepage of the Disney+ app for U.S. viewers. While only ESPN+ content will be displayed through that hub for now…
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