After a two week channel blackout, Disney and DirecTV have a deal in principle.
The deal comes in time for college football games set to run on ESPN Saturday, as well as Sunday night’s Emmy Awards and Monday Night Football the following day.
The agreed upon points including the opportunity to offer DirecTV customers genre-specific bundles, sports, entertainment, kids and family, which also include Disney’s linear networks, as well as Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+. DirecTV will also have the right to distribute Disney’s upcoming ESPN flagship streaming service to its customers for free upon launch.
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Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ will be included in select DirecTV packages and also made available individually. DirecTV will also have continued carriage at “market-based terms” of Disney’s entertainment, sports and news programming, including the ABC Owned Television Stations, the ESPN networks, the Disney-branded channels, Freeform,
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