After spending years as the final holdout among major media companies, Fox is finally planning to make its sports programming available via a direct-to-subscriber streaming service.
Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said in an earnings call Tuesday that the company plans to launch a subscription streaming service by year’s end that will include sports and news content, marking the first time that Fox sports programming will be available direct to subscriber.
Fox was one of the three companies behind the planned sports-specific streaming service Venu, which would have included Fox Sports programming, but that was shelved earlier this year.
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