Disney is about to own all of Hulu
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Disney expects to pay $8 billion to get full ownership of Hulu.

Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.::Disney and Comcast have reached a deal on Hulu’s buyout. Disney expects to pay about $8.61 billion to get the 33 percent owned by Comcast as a result of their agreement in 2019.

  • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    How was there ever an end where a 100 dollar a month cable package is cheaper than all TV programmers having to make their own apps and direct to consumer distribution channels. It’s all the same TV with more operational overhead than having cable be the single pipe to distribute all content. The difference was steaming used to augment cable revenue. Now it is replacing cable revenue and that revenue goal hasn’t changed.