Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.::Disney and Comcast have reached a deal on Hulu’s buyout. Disney expects to pay about $8.61 billion to get the 33 percent owned by Comcast as a result of their agreement in 2019.

  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A Disney monopoly in streaming? Further consolidation wouldn’t be the worst thing at this point. There are too many competing services.

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        1 year ago

        Have you looked at Hulu’s add-ons? You can get sports packages, movie packages, random-ass-bunch-of-channels packages. Sound familiar?

        • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          This is just techbros inventing stuff… They invented taxi (Uber), bed and breakfast accomodation (Airbnb), food delivery etc…

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      1 year ago

      Hulu was always Disney though. It was there content that started with it. Buying Fox was the consolidation.