Venu Sports (joint sports venture from Disney, Fox, WB) under scrutiny by Democratic lawmakers.

[tall_guy1]

Democratic senators ask DOJ to block ESPN, Fox Sports, TNT joint venture Venu Sports Should be interesting what transpires here.

 

[NYAZSporty]

Judges have ruled in favor of FuboTV in their lawsuit & have blocked the launch of Venu Sports. Judge Bars Disney, Warner, Fox From Launching Sports Streamer Venu

 

[luperm]

Good. Sports programmers have long required distributors to carry garbage channels as part of their packages. Then the programmers decide to magic up their own service that has none of the expensive bloat that they impose upon their competitors. Regulators should take a hard look at this.

 

[tall_guy1]

They are appealing. Is it possible they will end up winning and launching Venu after all? I don't think I have heard of companies losing these suits.

 

[richc]

I heard that FUBO is on the verge of filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and this might be there only way to survive

 

[luperm]

I heard that FUBO is on the verge of filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and this might be there only way to survive

When your programming providers undercut you by selling directly to end users, the middleman tends to get hosed...especially when the providers saddle the middleman with a bunch of garbage programming that results in a bloated, overpriced offering. Once they manage to get rid of aggregators like Fubo, prices will get even more ridiculous.

 

[Megatron]

Just a delay for now isn't coming until sometime in 2025 in my opinion. This was just stalling by FUBO I'm surprised that the judge ruled in their favor.

 

[Don CT]

Just a delay for now isn't coming until sometime in 2025 in my opinion. This was just stalling by FUBO I'm surprised that the judge ruled in their favor.

Did you read the judges ruling?

 

[Syfy]

Who would even pay 42.99 a month just to get fox espn and abc channels and on demand sports programming, this is a rip off.

 

[Don CT]

Who would even pay 42.99 a month just to get fox espn and abc channels and on demand sports programming, this is a rip off.

If DTV doesn’t make a deal a lot of people.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Who would even pay 42.99 a month just to get fox espn and abc channels and on demand sports programming, this is a rip off.

they might from during football season, and then just cancel until the next year

 

[NoDakObserver]

Who would even pay 42.99 a month just to get fox espn and abc channels and on demand sports programming, this is a rip off.

People that just want the channels that carry sports and not other "basic" cable channels that they never watch.

 

[KeithE4]

Who would even pay 42.99 a month just to get fox espn and abc channels and on demand sports programming, this is a rip off.

I'm a sports fan above all else. I pay about $80 a month for YouTube TV. The only channels I have selected are sports, locals I have trouble receiving via antenna (KTVK/3, KAZT/7, and KASW/61 are not carried, so I'm stuck with "chunky" reception from them as well as the LPTVs in some rooms), secondary news channels (read: NOT Fox Noise, CNN, and BSNBC), and a few others like TVLand and TCM. Much better than DirecTV, although if Venu does get going, I'll consider it.