Disney Puts New Emphasis on Skinny Bundles

Disney Backed Out of 'Redundant' Venu Because of the Rise of Sports Skinny Bundles
The rise of sports skinny bundles led to The Walt Disney Company's decision to back out of Venu Sports, the joint streamer between Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox. CEO Bob Iger revealed the reasoning during the company's first quarter earnings call for 2025.
Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery call off Venu sports streaming service
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery have called off plans to launch their sports streaming service, Venu, the companies said in a joint statement Friday.
Disney Puts New Emphasis on Skinny Bundles for ESPN
Disney thinks an emerging suite of so-called “skinny bundles” serves as a better way to make ESPN available to cord-cutters than Venu, a now-scuttled streaming sports joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox Corp.
Disney CEO discusses ESPN streamer, demise of Venu Sports
Bob Iger did his best to hype up the new ESPN streaming service Flagship while discussing Disney’s quarterly earnings with analysts. The future looks bright for ESPN. The sports network and its sibling channels just had theirbest ratings month in a decade,
Disney is doubling down on its plan to make ESPN the future of sports streaming
D isney wants to win the sports streaming war by making ESPN available “however the consumer wants it, wherever the consumer wants it,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said during an earn
Disney CEO Bob Iger Says “Venu Basically Looked Redundant To Us” As Other Skinny Bundles Emerged
Disney CEO Bob Iger said Venu, the streaming sports joint venture that’s fading into history, became irrelevant as ...
Bob Iger explains Disney's confusing sports strategy
Disney has been making a whirlwind of sports streaming moves lately that some analysts worry could confuse consumers.
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Venu Sports scrapped by Fox, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery before it even gets a chance to launch
Venu Sports, the proposed sports streaming joint venture from Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery, has been scrapped ahead of its anticipated launch, the companies said Friday.
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Venu Sports May Be Dead, but the Re-Bundling Era Is Just Beginning | Analysis
WBD’s loss of its NBA rights weakened Venu Sports. (NBAE/Harry How/Getty Images) The satellite TV giant also previously struck a new carriage deal with Disney, which will allow it to create ...
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Venu Sports Is Dead: Disney, Warner Bros., and Fox Joint Streamer Will Not Go Forward
In essence, what the Disney-Fox-Warner Bros. Discovery streamer, called Venu Sports for its short existence, sought to do was recreate cable, but this time in app form. The three companies ...
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Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery Scrap Venu Sports Streamer
Fubo, a smaller streaming service with a heavy tilt into sports, claimed Venu would “substantially lessen competition and restrain trade.” Disney appeared to have solved the problem earlier this ...
Disney tops quarterly profit estimates but starts to lose Disney+ streaming subscribers
Disney warned during its fiscal fourth-quarter report in November that it expected a “modest decline” in subscriptions during ...
RIP Venu, But Lachlan Murdoch Says Fox Will Finally Launch Its Own DTC Service This Year
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch delivered a brief elegy this morning for shuttered sports streaming JV Venu but detailed plans for ...
Walt Disney beats earnings estimates with help from 'Moana 2'
Disney sharply outperformed Wall Street's quarterly earnings estimates with results buoyed by the strong holiday box office ...
Disney teases ESPN streaming service with new details, ‘early fall’ launch
Disney has shared new details on its upcoming ESPN streaming service which is slated for an ‘early fall’ launch.