U.S. Reps send letter to Disney, Fox, WBD CEOs over upcoming sports streaming venture
"As programmers, your companies exert tremendous influence over pricing across the live sports TV ecosystem."
"As programmers, your companies exert tremendous influence over pricing across the live sports TV ecosystem."
"We believe that a sports-only streaming app is a tough model and that sports integrated in a general entertainment service a la Peacock or Paramount Plus makes more sense."
Charter's decision to join Comcast's streaming device/smart TV project rather than do their own gives the combined venture significant scale, and perhaps paves the way for some eventual OTT service bundling deals.
Many YouTube TV subscribers who used to get particular Fox RSNs now don't get those networks under the new Sinclair-YouTube TV deal.
"It literally takes the customer acquisition cost and cuts it in half."