Disney has long been planning to launch a new flagship ESPN streaming service—separate from the existing ESPN+ streamer—and its fall launch is fast approaching. Today during Disney’s ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Disney wants to win the sports streaming war by making ESPN available “however the consumer wants it, wherever the consumer wants it,” Disney ...

Disney CEO Bob Iger has a guiding principle for ESPN: Make it "as accessible as possible and in as many ways as possible." That's what Iger said on an earnings call Wednesday when an analyst asked ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disney is planning to relaunch ESPN+ as a new standalone streaming service, that would essentially mirror what is available on its suite of ESPN channels. That service is slated to launch this ...

According to the suit, via Deadline, “Disney’s ownership of ESPN… enables it to extract monopoly rents” in the live television streaming market, through monopoly tactics such as “forcing ...

Rohe reports directly to Adam Smith, chief product and technology officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN, who joined the company last September. The new organization headed by Rohe unifies many ...

as blockbusters like “Moana 2” and improved streaming financials offset lower ESPN and theme park results. This is part of the reason that old-line entertainment conglomerates like Disney have ...

Betting on subscription bundles Sports and bundles are Disney’s other tactics for wooing subscribers this year. Last year, ESPN helped Disney’s combined streaming portfolio turn a profit for the first ...

Disney Entertainment and ESPN have hired Andre Rohe as their new executive vice president of product engineering. The former Meta, YouTube and Google engineering executive, who will report ...