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Bruce

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Last reply Apr 23, 2025 · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hulu Live TV and Fubo to Merge

I posted here last year, that Disney wanted to separate Hulu Live from Hulu, this is one way to do so and get rid of the lawsuit.

In a move that could reshape the landscape of online television, Walt Disney Co. and streaming provider FuboTV Inc. are reportedly nearing a deal to combine their live TV businesses. Sources close to the matter reveal that Disney plans to fold its Hulu + Live TV service into Fubo, creating a new entity that would become the second-largest digital pay-TV provider in the US, according to a report from B loomberg.

Under the proposed agreement, Disney would hold a 70% stake in the new venture, with Fubo retaining the remaining 30%. The deal specifically focuses on the live TV components of both services, leaving Hulu's on-demand streaming library untouched. Both the Fubo and Hulu + Live TV brands will continue to operate independently.

The deal also brings an unexpected resolution to a legal battle between the two companies. Fubo had previously filed a lawsuit against Disney, Fox Corp., and Warner Bros. Discovery over their joint venture, Venu Sports, alleging anti-competitive practices. As part of the merger agreement, Fubo will reportedly drop these claims, clearing the path for Venu Sports' launch.

Disney's Hulu + live TV and Fubo to Reportedly Merge Live TV Businesses As Fubo Would Drop Its Lawsuit | Cord Cutters News

In a move that could reshape the landscape of online television, Walt Disney Co. and streaming provider FuboTV Inc. are reportedly nearing a deal to combine their live TV businesses. Sources close to the matter reveal that Disney plans to fold its Hulu + Live TV service into Fubo, creating a new...

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cp2k

Jan 9, 2025

Attempting to get us back on topic, I wonder how long it's going to take Disney to totally kill off Hulu now. They can eventually offload the Hulu Live TV customers to Fubo, and integrate the rest of Hulu's content with Disney Plus which will kill Hulu completely.

Bruce

Jan 9, 2025

cpalmer2k said:
Attempting to get us back on topic, I wonder how long it's going to take Disney to totally kill off Hulu now. They can eventually offload the Hulu Live TV customers to Fubo, and integrate the rest of Hulu's content with Disney Plus which will kill Hulu completely.

When I was employed by them, they were making plans to offload Hulu Live, losing money, they knew it had no future.

The Fubo merger, I had no idea about since I left last year.

The problem with regular Hulu, is a lot of it's content is only licensed to be shown in the United States, not easy to merge with Disney+, which is a global service, majority of content, owned by Disney of course.

And yes, typed the above while on the exercise bike.

savarese04

Jan 9, 2025

Bruce said:
The problem with regular Hulu, is a lot of it's content is only licensed to be shown in the United States, not easy to merge with Disney+, which is a global service, majority of content, owned by Disney of course.

your point is taken, but I fail to see how this is a problem. Netflix is one service and is able to successfully serve content globally based on where they have the rights to that content. Disney can easily do the same.

I would think the bigger issue is that the content is presently licensed to Hulu and not Disney+. They are getting away with it now because they built a Hulu tile within Disney+. I would think that to ditch the Hulu tile (and service entirely), they would have to assign those agreements to Disney+ and that many of those agreements have anti-assignment clauses.

I would also venture to guess that companies presently licensing content are okay with it being on Hulu because it's a bit of an arms reach of the Disney name. Once that content is on Disney+ itself, they may have other thoughts

Bruce

Jan 9, 2025

savarese04 said:
your point is taken, but I fail to see how this is a problem. Netflix is one service and is able to successfully serve content globally based on where they have the rights to that content. Disney can easily do the same.

Netflix owns ( or partially owns) the vast majority of original content on their service, the stuff they do not, some is licensed globally, some for certain countries.

For example, WWE Raw is licensed globally, but the WWE catalog content is in almost every country on Netflix, but here in the states, it is on Peacock.

savarese04 said:
I would think the bigger issue is that the content is presently licensed to Hulu and not Disney+.

A few examples, the Handmaid's Tale is owned by MGM, Hulu is licensed to show it here, but in the UK, it is on Amazon Prime.

Even content Disney owns, like FX shows, while on Hulu and Disney+ here, it is licensed to Sky Go in the UK, cannot be on Disney+ there.

Doctor Who is on Disney+ here, BBC in the UK.

savarese04

Jan 9, 2025

Bruce said:
Netflix owns ( or partially owns) the vast majority of original content on their service, the stuff they do not, some is licensed globally, some for certain countries.

You said the content is not easy to merge with Disney+ because of the issue between global vs US-only licenses. My point was that this is not an issue because, as you said, Netflix has no problem showing WWE catalog overseas, but not in the US, even though all content resides on the same platform. If Netlfix can do it, Disney+ should be able to do it.

Bruce said:
Nope, for a few examples, the Handmaid's Tale is owned by MGM, Hulu is licensed to show it here, but in the UK, it is on Amazon Prime.

Even content Disney owns, like FX shows, while on Hulu and Disney+ here, it is licensed to Sky Go in the UK, cannot be on Disney+ there.

Doctor Who is on Disney+ here, BBC in the UK.

You're not even responding to what I said. What I said was that content licensed to Hulu in the US cannot be shown on Disney+ in the US. That is because license agreements need to be updated. A big reason Hulu launched in beta on Disney+ was because they needed to get agreements in place for that content to be shown. So even where Hulu has the rights to content IN THIS REGION, it cannot be shown on Disney+ IN THIS REGION unless the content provider agrees to it.

hence, Hulu cannot merge into Disney+ until all the content is updated. To this day, there is a lot of content on Hulu that simply cannot be shown via the Disney+ app yet.

navychop

Jan 14, 2025

Thanks for the clarification.

glrush

Apr 23, 2025

Disney-Fubo deal facing formal Department of Justice antitrust investigation

January's remarkable Disney-Fubo deal is now facing another hurdle. The Department of Justice is now formally investigating the agreement.

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dishstaller

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Last reply 2 minutes ago · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.

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Foxbat

Today at 2:37 PM

Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…

dishstaller

Today at 2:57 PM

Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.

navychop

Today at 3:16 PM

Foxbat said:
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Foxbat

53 minutes ago

navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…

klang

2 minutes ago

Foxbat said:
Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

I still have one of those although I've been trying to wean myself off it.

Bobby

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Last reply 26 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish 4K Event Listings (No Discussion)

This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.

As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.

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Bobby

Sunday at 11:00 AM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Wednesday 10-14, 5PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:48 PM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:50 PM

CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:52 PM

NASCAR, Freeway Insurance 500, Sunday 10-18, 12PM PDT, Channel 148-04.

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Bobby

26 minutes ago

CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.

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Former member 209992

Last reply 41 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Site is slooooow

For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.

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Foxbat

Today at 1:22 PM

Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

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Scott Greczkowski

Today at 2:49 PM

I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now.

We are rocking now!

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Foxbat

45 minutes ago

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Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

I rebooted my MacBook Air and it's zipping right along. Sorry, but it was taking over 20 seconds to load pages, with the pulsing blue bars so it was munching on something.

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Scott Greczkowski

44 minutes ago

Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

WTF… …What the Foxbat!

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dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 3:00 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Man falls to his death on roller coaster at 6 Flags in GA

Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.

Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster

Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:02 PM

Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.

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Yesterday at 11:10 PM

Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Jimbo said:
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.

dishstaller

Today at 10:07 AM

Jimbo said:
Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

Jimbo

Today at 2:18 PM

dishstaller said:
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.

Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...

NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system

I'm glad to see ...

dishstaller

Today at 3:00 PM

Jimbo said:
with a Seat belt as last resort.

According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.

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Ham Radio 2.0

Today at 2:52 PM · posted in Ham Radio 2.0

Kenwood TM-D750 vs ICOM ID-5200: Don't Buy One Before Watching This!

Time for another AWESOME video from Ham Radio 2.0!

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Houston Rockets

Last reply Today at 2:39 PM · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support

OTHER Mini Multiswitch

I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....

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Titanium

Today at 2:00 PM

Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.

Houston Rockets

Today at 2:39 PM

No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's

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Tech News Weekly 459

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!

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TheRatPatrol

Last reply Today at 2:13 PM · posted in TV Shows

NCIS

Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?

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TheRatPatrol

Monday at 11:11 AM

Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:47 AM

TheRatPatrol said:
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

Was Gibbs still there when you quit watching ?
If so, A Lot has happened ....

It's been pretty good all along , once you get use to Gibbs being gone.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:41 PM