New sports bundle could give cord-cutting fans their biggest single source of content yet
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to launch a new streaming service right before ESPN announced its own offering.
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans Tuesday to launch a streaming service that could become the biggest single source of sports content for cord-cutting consumers.
The three companies account for a massive share of the TV sports market, carrying games that are virtually all available online — but often accessible only with subscriptions to pricier traditional cable and satellite services.
Starting this fall, the new package could sidestep those subscriptions and deal another crushing blow to traditional TV providers.
"This is obviously a nice, positive step for fans," media industry analyst Rich Greenfield, a co-founder of LightShed Partners, told CNBC.
"It's going to make it a little bit easier to access just the content they want if they don't care about a lot of the non-sports cable networks out there," he said.
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