This further emphasizes a couple of trends we’re seeing with streaming providers, though. But cutting them makes it perhaps possible to offer a less-dramatic price increase than the 30 percent hike ( $49.99 to $64.99 monthly) YouTube TV unveiled this week. As AA’s Joe Lucia wrote last week, “Bundling all of them together will cause fubo to pay a significant amount in carriage fees – $16, per an estimate last fall.” And that estimate has the WarnerMedia channels coming in at around $6.50 per month in per-subscriber fees, so even cutting them and raising the fuboTV price won’t make this revenue-neutral for the streaming service. The price hike alone will not cover the cost of adding the Disney channels, especially with ESPN’s industry-leading per-subscriber fee. It’s somewhat understandable why fuboTV is making this changes, especially after adding the Disney networks. “Despite these changes, and with the upcoming launch of ESPN and Walt Disney Television, fuboTV’s sports-focused cable TV replacement will offer a market-best 43 of the top 50 Nielsen-ranked sports, news and entertainment channels in our base package.” “In order to continue to provide the most value to our customers at a reasonable price point, we will not be renewing our contract with WarnerMedia,” a Fubo spokesperson said.
“We are disappointed that our deal with fuboTV is not being renewed, as we have been working with them and were open to a potential renewal,” the statement said. In a statement referring to the “termination” of Fubo carriage, WarnerMedia did not appear to be leaving the door open for a deal.
And it seems like this is more of a permanent divorce than a short-term carriage dispute, at least as per statements from both sides ( via Dade Hayes at Deadline): So that means those looking to watch NBA and MLB games on fuboTV this fall will be missing some of the action (although they will be getting some games from both leagues on ESPN’s networks). The dropped networks? TNT, TBS, CNN, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, truTV, HLN, TCM, CNN Español and CNN International.
After announcing last week that they would add Disney Media Networks channels, including ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, Disney Channel, FXX and more, streaming bundle company fuboTV has now revealed that they’ll be both increasing the price of their base package from $55 to $60 a month and also dropping 11 WarnerMedia channels (which they added back in August 2018).
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