Hulu Live TV and Fubo to Merge

[KAB]

so maybe back off and crawl back into your hole.

Talk about bass-ackward!

 

[Ronnie-]

Lots of off topic and personal attacks for no reason in the last part of the thread.

How about when some of us get off vacation, we leave that out of the discussion.

 

[cpalmer2k]

Attempting to get us back on topic, I wonder how long it's going to take Disney to totally kill off Hulu now. They can eventually offload the Hulu Live TV customers to Fubo, and integrate the rest of Hulu's content with Disney Plus which will kill Hulu completely.

 

[Bruce]

Attempting to get us back on topic, I wonder how long it's going to take Disney to totally kill off Hulu now. They can eventually offload the Hulu Live TV customers to Fubo, and integrate the rest of Hulu's content with Disney Plus which will kill Hulu completely.

When I was employed by them, they were making plans to offload Hulu Live, losing money, they knew it had no future.

The Fubo merger, I had no idea about since I left last year.

The problem with regular Hulu, is a lot of it’s content is only licensed to be shown in the United States, not easy to merge with Disney+, which is a global service, majority of content, owned by Disney of course.

And yes, typed the above while on the exercise bike.

 

[navychop]

I thought there was a way to dictate posts here, but I sure can’t find it.

 

[b4pjoe]

but I do wonder why you make inaccurate, poorly worded, grammatically incorrect posts and responses.

If "inaccurate, poorly worded, grammatically incorrect posts and responses" bothers you maybe the internet isn't the place for you.

 

[meStevo]

I thought there was a way to dictate posts here, but I sure can’t find it.

That would be a feature of the browser (or in the case of mobile phones, the keyboard) you use to make a post.

 

[savarese04]

The problem with regular Hulu, is a lot of it’s content is only licensed to be shown in the United States, not easy to merge with Disney+, which is a global service, majority of content, owned by Disney of course.

your point is taken, but I fail to see how this is a problem. Netflix is one service and is able to successfully serve content globally based on where they have the rights to that content. Disney can easily do the same.

I would think the bigger issue is that the content is presently licensed to Hulu and not Disney+. They are getting away with it now because they built a Hulu tile within Disney+. I would think that to ditch the Hulu tile (and service entirely), they would have to assign those agreements to Disney+ and that many of those agreements have anti-assignment clauses.

I would also venture to guess that companies presently licensing content are okay with it being on Hulu because it's a bit of an arms reach of the Disney name. Once that content is on Disney+ itself, they may have other thoughts

 

[Bruce]

your point is taken, but I fail to see how this is a problem. Netflix is one service and is able to successfully serve content globally based on where they have the rights to that content. Disney can easily do the same.

Netflix owns ( or partially owns) the vast majority of original content on their service, the stuff they do not, some is licensed globally, some for certain countries.

For example, WWE Raw is licensed globally, but the WWE catalog content is in almost every country on Netflix, but here in the states, it is on Peacock.

I would think the bigger issue is that the content is presently licensed to Hulu and not Disney+.

A few examples, the Handmaid’s Tale is owned by MGM, Hulu is licensed to show it here, but in the UK, it is on Amazon Prime.

Even content Disney owns, like FX shows, while on Hulu and Disney+ here, it is licensed to Sky Go in the UK, cannot be on Disney+ there.

Doctor Who is on Disney+ here, BBC in the UK.

 

[savarese04]

Netflix owns ( or partially owns) the vast majority of original content on their service, the stuff they do not, some is licensed globally, some for certain countries.

You said the content is not easy to merge with Disney+ because of the issue between global vs US-only licenses. My point was that this is not an issue because, as you said, Netflix has no problem showing WWE catalog overseas, but not in the US, even though all content resides on the same platform. If Netlfix can do it, Disney+ should be able to do it.

Nope, for a few examples, the Handmaid’s Tale is owned by MGM, Hulu is licensed to show it here, but in the UK, it is on Amazon Prime.

Even content Disney owns, like FX shows, while on Hulu and Disney+ here, it is licensed to Sky Go in the UK, cannot be on Disney+ there.

Doctor Who is on Disney+ here, BBC in the UK.

You're not even responding to what I said. What I said was that content licensed to Hulu in the US cannot be shown on Disney+ in the US. That is because license agreements need to be updated. A big reason Hulu launched in beta on Disney+ was because they needed to get agreements in place for that content to be shown. So even where Hulu has the rights to content IN THIS REGION, it cannot be shown on Disney+ IN THIS REGION unless the content provider agrees to it.

hence, Hulu cannot merge into Disney+ until all the content is updated. To this day, there is a lot of content on Hulu that simply cannot be shown via the Disney+ app yet.