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At last season’s close, NBA broadcasters sulked to the bus, heads down, defeated. Across Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)’s ABC and ESPN, NBA TV and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)’s TNT, the league’s regular-season average viewership had fallen 6 percent year-over-year. TNT, in...

President Donald Trump continued his public spat with the NFL on Tuesday morning when he posted a tweet criticizing the NFL for taking advantage of “massive tax breaks” while also disrespecting the American flag by protesting during the national anthem before games. Unfortunately for...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) is one of Wall Street's most hotly contested stocks given its exposure to cable TV through its ESPN unit. But there is no debate among analysts at RBC Capital Markets who named the stock on Monday a "Top Pick." The firm's Steven Cahall upgraded Disney...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger keeps confirming what was obvious a month ago: The roster of the original Marvel shows currently running on Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) will be joining the Mouse House’s new streaming service when the contracts between the companies are up in 2019....

Over the past few years, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s investors have had to worry about the same headwind: subscriber losses from its ESPN unit. But these concerns should be considered "overblown," at least according to UBS's Doug Mitchelson, who maintains a Buy rating and $126...

The big idea that made big-time college sports even richer began with a risky, some thought ridiculous concept. An entire television network devoted to a single athletic conference? Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany hatched the plan back in 2004, when he tried to get a more-lucrative extension from...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s ESPN unit made a controversial decision to pull a broadcaster named Robert Lee from its college football Sept. 2 broadcast of the University of Virginia versus the College of William & Mary. Normally such a move wouldn't merit national headlines, but this isn't a...

ESPN just isn't whistling Dixie. In a move that set off an outcry across media both social and mainstream, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) pulled a broadcaster, Robert Lee, off its sports wing's telecast of the Sept. 2 game between the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) shares have been drifting lower by more than 7.7 percent since the beginning of the month, and some investors have attributed much of the weakness to the company’s recent announcement that it is pulling its content from the Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) platform and...

For a time, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) was content to share the wealth of its popular portfolio. But now it’s scrapping middlemen and taking distribution into its own hands. The company announced Tuesday its plans to launch ESPN- and Disney-branded over-the-top services in 2018 and 2019,...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) delivered some big news after reporting a third-quarter earnings beat on Tuesday. Disney announced it was buying a majority $1.58 billion stake in BAMTech, the MLB Advanced Media service it initially took a $1 billion stake in last year. The move will acquire a 42 percent...

Print is dead. Long live content. At a time when Internet news portals are exploiting all the video and graphic-driven gimmicks at their disposal, a startup called The Athletic is a local, subscription-based news service that - wait for it - focuses on quality reporting. With no ads. The Athletic...

Credit Suisse analyst Omar Sheikh expects Walt Disney Co's (NYSE: DIS) growth to heat up in 2018 and 2019 as he reiterated his Outperform rating with a $125 price target. “After two years of slowing growth," Sheikh wrote, "we forecast DIS's EPS and FCF will re-accelerate in...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) is suffering from a secular change in its television business, but the company has plenty of tools at its disposal, Barton Crockett of FBR Capital Markets said during CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Friday. The problem for Disney is, at its core, the company is a...

Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) is reportedly offering a new sports-free cable TV bundle for $19.95 per month. The bundle is called Spectrum TV Stream, and it excludes Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)’s ESPN. While Charter has had a similar offer in the table since 2015, Disney...