A group of YouTube TV subscribers has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, claiming that the company’s business deals with competitors have inflated the amount consumers pay for streaming live TV services.
The plaintiffs from four states claim that, because Disney requires streamers including YouTube TV to include ESPN in base packages, they are paying extra more for their subscriptions than they should.
The 82-page class-action complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco (read it here) alleges that Disney’s control of both ESPN and Hulu has allowed the conglomerate to “inflate prices marketwise by raising the prices of its own products” and also “set a price floor.”
According to the suit: “Together, these carriage agreement mandates — which now cover all of Disney’s leading competitors in the Slptv Market — allow Disney to use ESPN and Hulu to set a price floor in the...
The plaintiffs from four states claim that, because Disney requires streamers including YouTube TV to include ESPN in base packages, they are paying extra more for their subscriptions than they should.
The 82-page class-action complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco (read it here) alleges that Disney’s control of both ESPN and Hulu has allowed the conglomerate to “inflate prices marketwise by raising the prices of its own products” and also “set a price floor.”
According to the suit: “Together, these carriage agreement mandates — which now cover all of Disney’s leading competitors in the Slptv Market — allow Disney to use ESPN and Hulu to set a price floor in the...
- 11/23/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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