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FTSE 100 earnings: why did the AstraZeneca share price fall 7%?
Our writer considers the reasons for AstraZeneca’s fall in the FTSE 100 today and explains why he isn’t too worried as a new shareholder.
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ESPN Streaming Service Expected to Launch by Fall 2025 – CNET
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ESPN’s standalone streaming service will launch by fall 2025
On the company’s quarterly earnings call today, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the previously-announced standalone ESPN streaming service will arrive by the fall of 2025. The company had already tipped the service, which Iger explained will offer “the full suite” of ESPN networks as a streaming option, but a general launch date or any additional details hadn’t been revealed.
Iger said that the standalone ESPN offering will serve up the live games and studio programming that’s currently available on a host of cable channels. What’s more, the service will provide access to ESPN Bet and fantasy sports alongside detailed stats and shopping. Of course, all of that will also include “robust personalization,” according to Iger.
These new details come a day after Disney announced it would team up with Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery on a combined sports streaming service this fall. The yet-to-be-named option will include games from NFL, MLB, NHL and the NBA via channels including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV and ESPN. There’s no word on pricing yet, but subscribers will be able to bundle it with their existing Disney+, Hulu, and Max subscriptions. This means that you’ll actually be able to stream ESPN networks without a cable or other live TV subscription before Disney’s own standalone service launches. However, the combo effort is sure to be more expensive as it mashes up all of those additional channels from Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery.
Disney already offers ESPN+ as an alternative to cable. The service makes live games available for streaming, but it doesn’t provide access to action as it airs on ESPN networks. For that reason ESPN+ has been complement to the cable channels, but Disney hasn’t yet said how its services will exist after fall of next year.
Standalone ESPN will also be available on Disney+ for bundle subscribers, just like the company has done with Hulu. No word on pricing for the new iteration of ESPN yet either, but there’s also plenty of time for Disney to hype the service between now and fall 2025. Iger did say that the the price “would be more attractive” than the typical cable bundle.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/espns-standalone-streaming-service-will-launch-by-fall-2025-220624127.html?src=rss
ESPN will be available as a standalone streaming service in fall 2025
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ABC Won’t Have Any Scripted Shows This Fall
From November 2007 until February 2008, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, and as dozens of shows on broadcast and cable television went on hiatus, reality TV exploded. Just over fifteen years later, the WGA is on strike again, and we’re already seeing its effects as the big networks look toward Fall. Disney’s ABC network published a Fall lineup entirely free of new scripted shows.
ABC’s Fall lineup features one new show, The Golden Bachelor, a variant of its popular Bachelor show focused on older participants. The rest of the lineup includes shows like Celebrity Jeopardy, Bachelor in Paradise, Judge Steve Harvey, the Shark Tank, and reruns of Abbott Elementary.
When writers went on strike in 2007, the WGA was concerned about general pay, but also details like DVD residuals and Guild involvement in the then-new world of streaming video content. Netflix as we know it now was barely six months old at that point and hadn’t yet developed (and arguably lost) its reputation for killer streaming television. Previous contracts didn’t account for newer forms of media, and the studios liked it that way–a whole new world of streaming without a pesky union to cut into their profits.