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Price Of ESPN-Fox-WBD Streaming Bundle Venu Sports Is Revealed


Venu Sports, the streaming joint venture of ESPN, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery, has revealed how much it will cost upon its fall launch.

The price is at the top end of the streaming market, but it is consistent with Venu’s proposition to bring linear feeds of 14 sports-centric networks to consumers without a full pay-TV subscription. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has said his company sees Venu as complementary to the main pay bundle, with internal forecasts calling for 5 million subscribers in its first five years. That balancing act has been complicated at times, as Disney discovered during its showdown with Charter Communications last year, when ESPN programming like college football and U.S. Open tennis was affected by a carriage fight.

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