News Disney and Fox come to terms -- announcement soon; huge IP acquisition

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celluloid

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I just got Hulu for about a dollar a month for a year around Thanksgiving for a promotion. Even my cheapskate-ness could not pass that up.

If Dusney plus features a large classic variety like the Disney Channel should at least be presenting g at.timea than I can go for 4 to 9 bucks a month.
 
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Quinnmac000

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Hulu statement from Comcast CFO

Speaking of DTC, so Comcast owns 30% of Hulu, AT&T I think over the last couple of weeks has made it clear that they're going to sell their 10% stake in Hulu. What's your plans for that asset considering Disney will consolidate, because have 60% of it once they closes?

John Hodulik

Well, no news for you here today. I mean we have and we want to continue to have a healthy relationship with Hulu. We think our content as I just said much of our content finds a great home on that platform. And one way or the other, we want to make sure we have a good and healthy and constructive for everybody ongoing relationship with Hulu.

Michael Cavanagh
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Indy_UK

Indy_UK

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Are Comcast going to do or have their own DTC streaming service? Buying SKY certainly isn't going to accelerate their streaming plans that's for sure
 
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Quinnmac000

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Retro Oswald said:
Are Comcast going to do or have their own DTC streaming service? Buying SKY certainly isn't going to accelerate their streaming plans that's for sure
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They already said no because they spread their influence more by having their products on everyone else services rather than just their stuff on their own and if they were to do one, none of their products would be exclusively on their site.
 
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Quinnmac000

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As for Hulu, India and most of East Asia is already out of the question for the streaming service which Hulu CEO is realizing now. In Japan HuluTM is already licensed out to TV Tokyo with literally everything on it so Disney really won't get funding from that. South Korea already has multiple streaming apps that air cable/western stuff for free (No IP protection and piracy of foreign materials is not enforced at all), China is already out of the question and India is oversupplied with services.

That will essentially mainly lead itself to a European/South American/African rollout which two don't really have super major markets (South America/Africa)
 
Lafayettecalboy

Lafayettecalboy

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Apparently foreign language URL are not allowed, but if you google Disney Fox ФАС in 24 hours apparently something came up saying that Russia approved the deal. I will give you the translation I did on Google Translate below:
MOSCOW, December 5th. / TASS /. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation approved a deal to purchase The Walt Disney Company assets 21st Century Fox.​
This Tass reported in the press service of the Russian department.​
“The Federal Antimonopoly Service reports that it has made a decision to grant the petition of TVDK Holdko 613 Corp., which is a member of the Disney group of persons, to acquire rights to determine the business environment of Fox Network Group, LLC Twentieth Century Fox CIS, Mayspace LLC, News Media LLC, White Media JSC, Twentyes Century Fox International Television, Inc. As the corporation acquired rights, in particular, to Russian societies, this application was considered by the Office ", - reported in the FAS.​
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bartholomr4

bartholomr4

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Hulu Update from CEO Randy Freer

Hulu heads for 23M subscribers, celebrates 'robust' live TV growth
Dec. 4, 2018 5:20 PM ET|By: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor

Hulu will add more subscribers in the second half of 2018 than it did in the first half, a pace that will put it over 23M subscribers by year-end.

And it's adding live TV subs at 10 times the rate of giant rival DirecTV Now (NYSE:T), according to its CEO. Hulu CEO Randy Freer didn't give an exact sub number, but described the faster pace, and the streaming service went from 17M subs in January to 20M by the time of NewFronts, suggesting it would top 23M by the end of 2018 ("impressive," Freer says, "but we need to get 30, 40, 50M homes in a way that we can scale.")

Meanwhile, "robust" live TV growth has them hitting 10x DirecTV Now's number (AT&T's streaming service said it added 49,000 customers in Q3, suggesting Hulu Live TV added nearly 500,000). Hulu is co-owned -- for now -- by Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Disney (NYSE:DIS), Fox (FOX, FOXA) and WarnerMedia (T).
 
Indy_UK

Indy_UK

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Hulu is a really nice service and hope it does end up rolling out to the UK eventually. They need to get some big adult Fox IP on there.

I still think that Aliens could work as an R rated TV series on the service. Same as the Kingsman TV series. That should pull people in a bit like Star Wars and Marvel on Disney+
 
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mab7689

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Lafayettecalboy said:
Apparently foreign language URL are not allowed, but if you google Disney Fox ФАС in 24 hours apparently something came up saying that Russia approved the deal. I will give you the translation I did on Google Translate below:
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Another to tick off. Based on what I have seen in here we have had no news on:

Australia
Israel
Japan
Mexico
South Korea
UK

I'm wondering what's pending and what, if any, have been approved privately (given but nothing announced publicly)
 
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Lafayettecalboy

Lafayettecalboy

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Dang, I would have to say that Latin America overall might be the final places to sign off on Disney/Fox, and they seem to be the biggest hurdles due to the cable sports issues. I also heard Mexico might have problems regarding cable sports in the context of Disney/Fox.
 

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