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Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu. (www.theverge.com)
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Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.::Disney and Comcast have reached a deal on Hulu’s buyout. Disney expects to pay about $8.61 billion to get the 33 percent owned by Comcast as a result of their agreement in 2019.

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[–] serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.com 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe they’ll roll Hulu’s content into Disney+ without raising prices.

Without raising prices, right?

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already do in the UK. 👍

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Canada too

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

If you mean not raising prices from what Disney+hulu costs, they probably will combine them for that price (or the bundle with ESPN)

But no, not for the price of Disney+

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly they should just consolidate. That's probably part of why they're doing this. Like Discovery and HBO, running two services is expensive... I fully expect Discovery+ to shut down entirely once behind the scenes content deals are over