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Disney Puts New Emphasis on Skinny Bundles

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 opportunities arose for ESPN to join other skinny bundles.

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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.

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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.

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Disney is doubling down on its plan to make ESPN the future of sports streaming

Disney 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 earni ...

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Media companies scrap Venu Sports before it even started

The planned streaming service Venu Sports has been scrapped before it even started. ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced Friday they were pulling the plug on Venu. It had been ...

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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 joint venture Venu, but the ...

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Fox is starting its own streaming service in wake of Venu disaster

This writer would like to personally apologize for writing that Venu —Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros.’ D.O.A. sports ...

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