{"id":893740,"date":"2025-01-08T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=893740"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:25:20","slug":"disney-to-merge-hulu-live-tv-with-fubotv-forming-second-biggest-online-pay-tv-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/08\/disney-to-merge-hulu-live-tv-with-fubotv-forming-second-biggest-online-pay-tv-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney to merge Hulu + Live TV with FuboTV, forming second-biggest online pay-TV platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Disney Co. has announced a merger between its Hulu + Live TV business and FuboTV, creating the second-largest online pay-TV provider in North America, behind YouTube TV. The combined entity will generate an estimated $6 billion in revenue with 6.2 million subscribers, offering internet-based cable TV packages as an alternative to traditional cable or satellite services. Disney will hold a 70% stake in the joint venture, which will be led by Fubo CEO and co-founder David Gandler. Notably, the deal excludes Hulu\u2019s core video-streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Disney Co. has announced a merger between its Hulu + Live TV business and FuboTV, creating the second-largest online pay-TV provider in North America, behind YouTube TV. The combined entity will generate an estimated $6 billion in revenue with 6.2 million subscribers, offering internet-based cable TV packages as an alternative to traditional cable or satellite services. Disney will hold a 70% stake in the joint venture, which will be led by Fubo CEO and co-founder David Gandler. Notably, the deal excludes Hulu\u2019s core video-streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}