I can see the ad as an "SNL Digital Short":
NFL Sunday Ticket:
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Media Companies Are Ready to Sell. Does Anyone Want to Buy?
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$78/month is far better than the $200 or so I was paying for DirecTV before I finally decided to dump them 3 years ago. I only paid $250 for Sunday Ticket. Why did you pay so much?
I found it all confusing, but I was able to get Hulu without ESPN and without Disney, saved over 60% of the cost and did not lose a single bit of content that I would have watched / streamed.
We also lack the sports gene so careful analysis of services we added during the pandemic has saved us between $80 and $90 a month. Most of the saving came from eliminating sports or sports-heavy services that were not missed.
DirecTV only charged $250 for Sunday ticket. Now YouTubeTV charges $350 for Sunday Ticket, on top of having to subscribe to the
regular channel lineup at $78 per month.
Disney agreed today to buy what it doesn't already own of Hulu.
www.reuters.com
Disney to buy remaining 33% stake in Hulu from Comcast for at least $8.6 bln
Walt Disney on Wednesday formally began the process of buying Comcast's one-third stake in Hulu, a deal that will give Disney full ownership of the streaming service and freedom to incorporate it into the Disney+ streaming service.
You could smell this coming, as Disney was promoting it's programming: Watch it live on ABC, or tomorrow on Hulu.
Similar to CBS and Paramount. They had a strategy in place for Hulu. All they needed to do was settle on a price.
Now what do they sell to pay for it?
That's easy: ABC O&O's and either a management deal for ESPN, or an LMA to buy.
Or maybe the ESPN Bet deal was worth over $10 billion:
Penn Entertainment to rebrand sportsbook as ESPN BET
Penn will rebrand its current sportsbook to ESPN BET this fall in the 16 states where it is licensed after a licensing deal was reached Tuesday.
With the ESPN and/or LMA option easily attainable
Byron Allen offered $10 billion for the ABC network and owned stations, FX and NatGeo six weeks ago.
Mogul Byron Allen makes $10 billion bid for Disney's ABC, other networks
Media entrepreneur Byron Allen has made a $10 billion bid to buy Walt Disney's ABC television network and assets including the FX and National Geographic cable channels, a spokesperson for Allen said on Friday.
If Fox and Barstool got out of sports betting, what makes ESPN think they can make this work?Or maybe the ESPN Bet deal was worth over $10 billion:
Penn Entertainment to rebrand sportsbook as ESPN BET
Penn will rebrand its current sportsbook to ESPN BET this fall in the 16 states where it is licensed after a licensing deal was reached Tuesday.www.espn.com
ABC isn’t seriously going to sell their O&O’s. That was just talk. They wouldn’t get the money they want for the stationsByron Allen offered $10 billion for the ABC network and owned stations six weeks ago.
Mogul Byron Allen makes $10 billion bid for Disney's ABC, other networks
Media entrepreneur Byron Allen has made a $10 billion bid to buy Walt Disney's ABC television network and assets including the FX and National Geographic cable channels, a spokesperson for Allen said on Friday.
They don't have to "make it work." They get paid whether it works or not.
Those stations will never be worth more than they are today. If Iger can offload ABC and its O&Os and pay for the Hulu deal, I think he does.
Bloomberg and Wells Fargo estimate ABC network and the O&Os as being worth between 4 and 4.5 billion dollars. Half the value of one-third of Hulu.
Fox Bet was hampered by it's owner Flutter Entertainment which was more focused on it's owned brand, FanDuel. Barstool Sportsbook is owned by Penn Entertainment and that is the same sportsbook rebranding to ESPN Bet. ESPN/Disney isn't risking any capital to be in the sports betting game they are simply licensing the name out.
Oh, I definitely don't think it's just talk. Iger doesn't go public saying traditional local TV and networks have no future if he wasn't serious. If Byron is serious about $10B for a $4-5B valuation, make that deal before Byron changes his mind.
Nexstar has also expressed interest, but just in the ABC owned stations group. If Bloomberg and Wells are right about the valuation for the network and stations ($4-4.5B), that's not enough. The stations alone would be a fraction of that.
Byron paying $10B for ABC, owned stations, FX and NatGeo covers the Hulu tab.
www.thewrap.com
Byron paying $10B for ABC, owned stations, FX and NatGeo covers the Hulu tab.
Nexstar Could Buy Disney's ABC Stations if Put Up For Sale, Senior Advisor Says
Nexstar senior advisor Tom Carter suggested that the company would be open to buying Disney's ABC TV stations if they were for sale.
www.thewrap.com
Disney has expected (or hoped) to take over Hulu for so long I’d think they already have a plan in place to finance the purchase and don’t need to make any asset sales to buy Hulu. That doesn’t mean they might not sell any assets down the line to pay off any debt they might incur in this purchase. But large corporations don’t usually announce acquisitions and have to sell off assets before the acquisition to enable the acquisition to happen.
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