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  • News: NFL To Acquire Stake in ESPN

    From Ian J. Ball@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 5 18:52:36 2025
    As per THR:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/espn-nfl-media-major-deal-redzone-1236326849/

    From the article:

    In a landscape-altering deal, The Walt Disney Co. will acquire assets
    from NFL Media, including NFL Network, with the league acquiring a 10
    percent ownership stake in the sports media giant.

    ESPN will fully own NFL Network, with plans to bake it into the upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service. The RedZone channel, meanwhile,
    will join Disney’s linear portfolio, with Disney also planning to merge
    its ESPN fantasy football product with NFL Media’s fantasy product.

    Perhaps most importantly, the NFL will also license games, RedZone, NFL
    Films programming and other content and rights to ESPN, potentially supercharging the streaming service when the deal closes.

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    This sucks. I'd like to see ESPN go under, not become more intertwined
    with professional sports. >:/

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Ian J. Ball on Tue Aug 5 21:13:29 2025
    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    As per THR:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/espn-nfl-media-major-deal-redzone-1236326849/

    From the article:

    In a landscape-altering deal, The Walt Disney Co. will acquire assets
    from NFL Media, including NFL Network, with the league acquiring a 10
    percent ownership stake in the sports media giant.

    ESPN will fully own NFL Network, with plans to bake it into the upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service. The RedZone channel, meanwhile,
    will join Disney’s linear portfolio, with Disney also planning to merge
    its ESPN fantasy football product with NFL Media’s fantasy product.

    Perhaps most importantly, the NFL will also license games, RedZone, NFL
    Films programming and other content and rights to ESPN, potentially supercharging the streaming service when the deal closes.

    ...
    --

    This sucks. I'd like to see ESPN go under, not become more intertwined
    with professional sports. >:/





    It’s like Bonnie Hammer destroying the SYFY channel with ‘rasslin’ all over
    again.

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    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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