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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, the Tuesday serving of extra guac on your What I’m Hearing burrito. As Hollywood continues to shed jobs—brutal layoffs at Paramount and A+E Networks just today—streaming bundles have been pitched as a possible solution for the decline of cable television. Yet as Puck’s Eriq Gardner learned by spending a week in a federal courtroom in New York, a judge is asking tough antitrust questions about the “Venu” sports streaming bundle that’s about to launch from Disney, Warner Discovery, and Fox. Today, we’ve got Eriq’s smart, big-picture analysis of a very important case.
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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, the Tuesday serving of extra guac on your What I’m Hearing burrito. As Hollywood continues to shed jobs—brutal layoffs at Paramount and A+E Networks just today—streaming bundles have been pitched as a possible solution for the decline of cable television. Yet as Puck’s Eriq Gardner learned by spending a week in a federal courtroom in New York, a judge is asking tough antitrust questions about the “Venu” sports streaming bundle that’s about to launch from Disney, Warner Discovery, and Fox. Today, we’ve got Eriq’s smart, big-picture analysis of a very important case.

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Zaslav’s Sports Streamer Is on Trial for Its Life
Zaslav’s Sports Streamer Is on Trial for Its Life
After days of withering scrutiny in court, a judge is seriously considering an injunction against Venu, the joint venture from WBD, Fox, and Disney, over alleged antitrust violations.
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Things may yet go from bad to worse for Warner Bros. Discovery, which announced a $9 billion write-down on its television assets last week, sending the company’s stock to an all-time low. The following day, WBD’s chief revenue officer, Bruce Campbell, took the witness stand in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. I was there when he acknowledged that things are...
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