A judge has now set a trial date in the antitrust suit blocking the launch of Venu Sports—and it won't even start until October 2025
A judge has now set a trial date in the antitrust suit blocking the launch of Venu Sports—and it won't even start until October 2025, we reported on what was a pretty sudden, and pretty massive, setback for some companies that normally get to act like they own large chunks of the media landscape, because they, uh, do: Disney, Warner Bros.
Welcome to the Okay, What’s Bundling, Actually? Sidebar! Basically, a company like Disney knows that not all of its channels have equal amounts of demand, and certainly not to the same people—so when they cut deals with providers like DirecTV, they include a bunch of rules that say anyone who buys access to, say, ESPN, also has to pay to get several other channels theyone of the big companies hates this , which is why DirecTV has been trying lately to put together genre-specific network bundles...
All of which is, admittedly, a little technical, and a lot messy, but there’s literally billions of dollars wrapped up in these fights right now, and will be for the foreseeable future. Fascinatingly, the Fubu/Venu lawsuit is likely to shed light on even more of this stuff. The discovery process on the lawsuit is expected to go heavily into how Disney, Warner Bros.
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