Tag: Fox
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ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Sports Streaming Service Will Have a Bundled Version With Max
Earlier this month Walt Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced they were forming a joint venture to create a new sports-centric streaming service that would bundle together the three media giant’s content. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed that this new service will be bundled with Max. Disney has already confirmed that you will…
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How to Watch the 2024 Daytona 500 Live on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More on February 19
Racing has returned with 2.5 miles of track and cars trading paint live at Daytona International Speedway for the 2024 Daytona 500. NASCAR’s biggest event kicks off its 66th edition featuring the sports biggest names. Update: The race has been moved to February 19 because of weather. Since 1959, Daytona has been a staple for…
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The Recap: A Possible Peacock-Paramount+ Marriage, Sports JV Drama, and More
A busy week was capped off by another shocking revelation: Paramount and Comcast discussing combining their respective streaming services, Paramount+ and Peacock. We also continued to see the ripple effects of last week’s announcement from Walt Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery to form a streaming sports joint venture, with a lot more unhappy…
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FOX is Reportedly Developing the Platform For the ESPN-FOX-Warners Sports JV
FOX will be responsible for developing the platform for the sports streaming joint venture between it, Walt Disney’s ESPN, and Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a tweet from Wall Street Journal media reporter Joe Flint. Flint noted that the platform will be based on News Corp.’s Kayo Sports platform, which is a live sports subscription…
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Hulu Adds More FOX Owned Stations To Its Live TV Service
A few days ago, Hulu + Live TV added FOX Weather to its lineup of TV channels. FOX Weather is a 24/7 live weather network taking on the Weather Channel. The service is free and ad-supported and has been available on Verizon Fios, The Roku Channel, fuboTV, YouTubeTV, DIRECTV STREAM, Xumo Play, WOW!, Sling TV,…
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Tubi Will Have to Deal With Class Action Lawsuit Over Consumer Privacy in Court
Free, ad-supported streaming service Tubi lost its bid to force a class action lawsuit accusing it of improperly sharing user data with advertisers out of the court room, according to Bloomberg Law. The FOX-owned service attempted to move the case to arbitration, which users typically agree to when they sign a company’s terms of service,…
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Justice Department Will Review Disney, FOX, and Warner’s Monster Sports Streaming JV
The sports streaming joint venture between Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery faces a potential regulatory hurdle. The U.S. Justice Department will review the deal to see if the service could harm consumers, as well as competitors and the sports leagues that work with the companies, according to Bloomberg. The review will begin once…
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NFL Execs May Try To Stop Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Sports Streaming Service Plans
The NFL’s top brass are reportedly furious over Disney-owned ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s plans to launch a new joint sports streaming service in the fall. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Chief Business Officer Brian Rolapp were told about the joint venture just hours before it was announced publicly, according to Puck News (a…
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Could the ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports JV Get Snagged By Regulators?
While the joint venture between Walt Disney Company’s ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch a new sports-centric streaming service may not be blocked by Congress nor the Federal Communications Commission, there are enough vocal companies affected by the deal that it could see some hurdles. That’s the opinion of Blair Levin, a former…
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Disney, FOX, & Warner Bros. Discovery May Have Just Killed Cable TV
This week Disney, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a partnership that would see a new sports-focused TV streaming service launch this fall. This service would offer 14 live channels of sports, including ESPN, BTN, FOX Sports, and sports from TNT—to name a few. This would address one of the main complaints of streaming services—the…