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08-10-2016, 01:07 AM
ESPN's 'multi-sport' streaming service is coming
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LOS ANGELES — Disney is breaking into the subscription streaming service world with the launch of an ESPN-branded "multi-sport” offering.
To help push out the service, Disney confirmed Tuesday it has purchased of 33 percent of Major League Baseball’s streaming tech**logy business BAMTech for $1 billion. Reports of the investment first surfaced in June.
"Our investment in*BAMTech*gives us the tech**logy infrastructure we need to quickly scale and monetize our streaming capabilities at ESPN and across our company," Disney CEO Bob*Iger said in a statement (http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/08/walt-disney-company-acquires-mi**rity-stake-bamtech/). "We look forward to working closely with*BAMTech*as we explore new ways to deliver the unmatched content of The Walt Disney Company across a variety of platforms." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/disney-espn-streaming-service/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LOS ANGELES — Disney is breaking into the subscription streaming service world with the launch of an ESPN-branded "multi-sport” offering.
To help push out the service, Disney confirmed Tuesday it has purchased of 33 percent of Major League Baseball’s streaming tech**logy business BAMTech for $1 billion. Reports of the investment first surfaced in June.
"Our investment in*BAMTech*gives us the tech**logy infrastructure we need to quickly scale and monetize our streaming capabilities at ESPN and across our company," Disney CEO Bob*Iger said in a statement (http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/08/walt-disney-company-acquires-mi**rity-stake-bamtech/). "We look forward to working closely with*BAMTech*as we explore new ways to deliver the unmatched content of The Walt Disney Company across a variety of platforms." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/disney-espn-streaming-service/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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