Statement From Fubo Regarding Warner Bros. Discovery
2024年5月1日 - 6:00AM
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FuboTV Inc. (d/b/a Fubo) (NYSE: FUBO), the leading sports-first
live TV streaming platform, issued the following statement
today:
Fubo has attempted to renew with Warner Brothers Discovery our
Discovery content agreement for its networks including Discovery,
HGTV, Food Network and TLC, among others, and to obtain license
rights for its Turner sports networks TNT, TBS and truTV. Fubo
offered Warner Brothers Discovery market rates for its content and,
despite Fubo’s efforts to negotiate in good faith, Warner Brothers
Discovery did not provide any counteroffer, and insisted on
continuing to offer us above-market rates for its content. Fubo
views Warner Brothers Discovery's refusal to engage in good faith
negotiations as another example of its abuse of massive market
power that ultimately limits consumer choice.
It is always Fubo's mission to offer a leading package of
premium sports, news and entertainment content while also providing
value and keeping costs as low as possible for consumers.
Warner Bros. Discovery has also denied our customers the choice
of subscribing to their Turner sports content separately from
Discovery content through a more affordable skinny sports bundle.
Yet Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it plans to make this
must-have content available in its forthcoming sports streaming
joint venture with The Walt Disney Company and FOX Corp.
Warner Bros. Discovery's refusal to offer Fubo standard market
terms and packaging flexibility are more examples of the unfair and
anti-competitive practices it and other vertically integrated media
companies have imposed on Fubo for many years. These practices,
outlined in our recent antitrust lawsuit filed against the joint
venture companies, aim to monopolize the market, stifle any form of
competition, create higher pricing for subscribers and cheat
consumers from deserved choice. Fubo is taking action against these
unfair market terms to avoid passing on these extra costs to
consumers.
It is clear to us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s actions hurt
consumer wallets and limit their choice. As a result, Warner Bros.
Discovery networks have left Fubo as of April 30, 2024 at 5pm
ET.
About Fubo
With a global mission to aggregate the best in TV, including
premium sports, news and entertainment content, through a single
app, FuboTV Inc. (d/b/a Fubo) (NYSE: FUBO) aims to transcend the
industry’s current TV model. The company operates Fubo in the U.S.,
Canada and Spain and Molotov in France.
In the U.S., Fubo is a sports-first cable TV replacement product
that aggregates more than 300 live sports, news and entertainment
networks and is the only live TV streaming platform with every
Nielsen-rated sports channel (source: Nielsen Total Viewers, 2023).
Leveraging Fubo’s proprietary data and technology platform
optimized for live TV and sports viewership, subscribers can engage
with the content they are watching through an intuitive and
personalized streaming experience. Fubo has continuously pushed the
boundaries of live TV streaming. It was the first virtual MVPD to
launch 4K streaming and MultiView, which it did years ahead of its
peers, as well as Instant Headlines, a first-of-its-kind AI feature
that generates contextual news topics as they are reported live on
air.
Learn more at https://fubo.tv
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Alison Sternberg, Fubo asternberg@fubo.tv
JCIR for Fubo ir@fubo.tv
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Jennifer L. Press, Fubo jpress@fubo.tv
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