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Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday said it finalized its deal to acquire a majority stake in FuboTV and swiftly combined its Hulu + Live TV business with the sports-focused operation. <\/p>\n

The union creates the nation\u2019s sixth largest pay-TV service with nearly 6 million domestic subscribers.<\/p>\n

Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Similar to competitors DirecTV, YouTube TV and Charter Spectrum, both Hulu + Live TV and Fubo distribute traditional channels including broadcasters ABC, CBS and cable channels Fox News, Bravo and ESPN. <\/p>\n

The combined company will be overseen by a nine-member board led by Brad Bird, former chairman of Walt Disney International. The firm will continue to offer Fubo and Hulu + Live TV as separate services available through their respective apps.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s investment plans were announced<\/a> in January, after the much smaller Fubo sued Disney and two other media companies over their plans to launch a high-profile streaming joint venture, Venu Sports. Fubo argued the collaboration of Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery was \u201ca sports cartel<\/a>,\u201d one that would crush its business. <\/p>\n

A judge agreed based on anti-trust concerns,<\/a> blocking further development of Venu. <\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s deal to acquire 70% of New York-based Fubo ended that litigation.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The combined business will be led by Fubo Chief Executive David Gandler, who co-founded the service, and Fubo\u2019s management team.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Fubo\u2019s founding a decade ago, our vision has always been to build a consumer-first streaming platform defined by innovation and value,\u201d Gandler said in a statement. \u201cTogether with Disney, we\u2019re creating a more flexible streaming ecosystem that gives consumers greater choice, while driving profitability and sustainable growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

His firm will have access to a $145 million term loan that Disney agreed to provide. Fubo\u2019s ad sales team will join Disney\u2019s sales organization.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s stock will continue to be publicly traded under the FUBO ticker. Existing Fubo shareholders represent about 30% of the company. Shares were up slightly to $3.95 in mid-day trading. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday said it finalized its deal to acquire a majority stake in FuboTV and swiftly combined its Hulu + Live TV business with the sports-focused operation. The union creates the nation\u2019s sixth largest pay-TV service with nearly 6 million domestic subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Similar to competitors DirecTV, YouTube […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2122969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Disney-folds-Hulu-Live-TV-into-Fubo.com2Fc72Fe52F3ecc794e40a78a99cc913339.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122970,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122968\/revisions\/2122970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}