The lawsuit targets allegedly anticompetitive bundling requirements that FuboTV claims lead to increased costs for consumers, who are forced to pay for content they don’t watch.
A federal judge has denied a bid to dismiss a lawsuit from media giants aiming to pool together their sports licensing rights to form a new streaming service, which was challenged by rival sports streamer Fubo.a fall launch of the streaming bundle, which would’ve featured 15 channels of popular live sports. Subscribers would’ve been able to access a number of live, linear channels, including ESPN, Fox, ABC, TNT and TBS, as well as ESPN+.
At the heart of the case are allegations that Disney, Fox and Warners leverage their control of must-have sports to force rivals into carrying dozens of pricey, unpopular channels as a take-it-or-leave-it condition of licensing critical sports channels. These anticompetitive bundling requirements, it alleged, lead to increased costs for consumers because they’re forced to pay for content they don’t watch.
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