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It is Wednesday, February 7th.

Major announcement yesterday in the world of sports media, I'm sure you saw it.

Disney Warner Brothers Discovery and Fox are teaming up to create a super streaming service

for sports in the U.S.

They're going to pool together ESPN, Turner Networks, and both Fox and FS1, a few more,

and sell one app that they will each own a third of. Now there are many questions about

this arrangement, which is going to supposedly launch this fall, including first and foremost,

what's it going to cost? Also, the ownership arrangement is kind of dicey. Disney will make more

because it's bringing more into the partnership. But to me, this sounds a lot like the original

incarnation of Hulu,

which was owned by a bunch of studios and was held back because of all the infighting and

different agendas among them. But having said that, think about the potential here. Between these

companies, they control virtually all of the national live TV rights for the NBA, Major League

Baseball, and the NHL, plus college,

and the Big Daddy, NFL through ESPN's Monday Night Football and Fox's Sunday afternoon

game.

One analyst estimates that it's about half of all sports in the U.S. and much more of the

major sports that drive viewership.

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