Channel Bundling Might Be Target in FuboTV Suit, Analyst Says
The tone of the federal court's temporary injunction against the streaming sports joint venture of ESPN/Fox Sports/Warner Bros. Discovery (see 2408160040) might indicate channel bundling could come under attack as FuboTV's suit against the JV heads to trial, LightShed Partners'…
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Rich Greenfield blogged Monday. He wrote the legality of bundling wasn't addressed in the injunction, but the U.S. District Court for Southern New York's decision said bundling practices "are bad for consumers." Greenfield added that while the partners know the Venu JV could cannibalize subscribers from existing multichannel video programming distributors and virtual MVPDs, the programming trio believes that if even one in four subscribers is new, Venu will be meaningfully additive financially to them.