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Disney coughs up $900M to acquire MLB’s remaining stake in BAMTech streaming company
Disney paid $900 million to Major League Baseball (MLB) earlier this month to buy out the league’s remaining 15% stake in the streaming firm BAMTech, according to an SEC filing made public Tuesd
Sirius XM snags former Disney+ exec as its new head of product and technology
Sirius XM, home to the satellite radio business and streaming music app Pandora, is bringing on a new head of product and technology, as the company plans to expand its focus beyond the car to better
Molotov will provide infrastructure service to other OTT platforms
French startup Molotov is better known for its TV streaming service in France. The company has attracted millions of users that use it to watch live TV, record movies and TV shows in the cloud, play p
ESPN’s streaming service, ESPN+, to launch April 12
ESPN’s new streaming service, ESPN+, was already expected to arrive this spring. Now we have the launch date: April 12, 2018. The service will cost subscribers $4.99 per month, and offer streami
ESPN’s streaming service will cost $4.99 and launch this spring
In the fall we wrote that ESPN’s new streaming service ESPN Plus would launch in Spring 2018. However details were vague, with pricing unknown and no specific list of what programming would be a
Crunch Report | Intel Is Building Its Own Test Driving Fleet
Intel is building its own cars, Disney owns 75% of BAMTech and Anker comes out with a $35 Echo Dot knock-off. All this on Crunch Report.
BAMTech valued at $3.75 billion following Disney deal
BAMTech, the company that powers streaming for MLB, HBO, NHL, WWE, and now, Disney’s and ESPN’s upcoming streaming services, is valued at $3.75 billion following Disney’s new investm
Disney has done streaming before, but its new try could be huge
Disney announced this afternoon that it’s doing the inevitable. It’s launching its own streaming service in 2019, and will pull its movies from Netflix that same year. But this is not Disn
Disney is ditching Netflix in 2019 to launch its own streaming service
Bad news if you were just getting used to all of the new Disney stuff hitting Netflix: that deal is on the way out. Disney has just announced plans to end its distribution agreement with Netflix in 20
Discovery teams with MLB’s streaming partner on European partnership
Discovery Communications has teamed up with the MLB’s streaming partner, BAMTech, which also powers the streaming services HBO NOW and PlayStation Vue, to launch a new venture in Europe. Called
Twitter scores with NFL deal
With the start of the new NFL season, fans across the U.S. -- indeed, the world -- are turning their attention to who the winners and losers will be, and who’ll be making their way to Super Bowl LI.
Disney will invest $1B into MLB’s streaming video business
The Walt Disney Company just announced that it’s paying $1 billion for a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the video streaming company created by Major League Baseball. As a result of the deal, BAMTe