The new sports streamer that Disney, Warner Bros., and Fox announced Tuesday is a really big deal that could reshape TV .
And then they charge the big pay TV distributors a ton to carry their broadcasts of those games.
Which may explain why, up until Tuesday, they hadn't told any of the pay TV companies or sports leagues about their plans, industry executives tell me.
But if you're the kind of person who's buying an antenna to watch sports TV, you're not going to buy this thing anyway.)
Also: The big TV guys didn't like it in 2015 when HBO started competing with them by selling itself as a stand-alone service.
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