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ESPN and League One Volleyball have reached a multi-year media rights deal, starting with the league's inaugural professional volleyball season, LOVB announced Thursday. ESPN will air 10 LOVB Pro matches across its linear networks and 18 matches on ESPN+ as part of the first season, which begins in January. LOVB operates 47 youth volleyball clubs in 22 states across the U.S. with more than 1,200 youth teams. Spaulding told CNBC in an interview the introduction of a professional league makes the business a "true youth-to-pro ecosystem." LOVB Pro matches will also be available on ESPN platforms in select countries and territories such as Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Persons: LOVB, Daniel Margulis, ESPN's, It's, LOVB's, Rosie Spaulding, Spaulding Organizations: ESPN, League, Disney, Fox Corp, Warner Bros, CNBC Locations: Austin , TX, Atlanta, Austin , Texas, Houston, Madison , Wisconsin, Omaha , Nebraska, Salt Lake City, American, Canada, Caribbean, Latin America, Saharan Africa, Australia, New Zealand
Disney Why we own it: We value Disney for its best-in-class experiential entertainment Parks business, which has proven to have immense pricing power. In the second quarter, the combined business — Disney+, India's Disney+ Hotstar, Hulu and ESPN+ — saw losses of $18 million, far better than the $659 million loss in the year-ago period. DTC profitability benefited from Disney+ core subscriber growth, higher retail subscription prices, increased advertising revenue on the back of higher impressions, and lower distribution costs. Clearly, Disney still has a big opportunity in sports as they execute on their DTC streaming strategy for ESPN. The atmosphere at the Disney Bundle Celebrating National Streaming Day at The Row in Los Angeles on May 19, 2022.
Persons: , Nelson Peltz, wouldn't, Hugh Johnston, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Presley Ann Organizations: Club, Revenue, LSEG, Disney, Parks, ESPN, Comcast, Netflix, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount Global, CNBC, seasonality, Entertainment, Hulu, Hulu Live, Sports ESPN, College Football, National Football League, Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise, Disneyland, Hong Kong, Getty Locations: Hulu, India, Florida, California, Hong, Los Angeles
Last year in the second quarter, Disney+ and Hulu lost $587 million. The thesis among all major legacy media companies has been that streaming will eventually take over for cable TV as the primary money-making engine. It's not just that Disney nearly made money in streaming — it's that the company's traditional linear TV results were awful. Next year, Disney will launch its flagship ESPN streaming service, which will allow consumers to subscribe to ESPN without cable at all. Looking at Disney's results in the second quarter, it's clear why the company has finally pulled the ripcord on ESPN.
Persons: Bob Iger, It's, Disney Organizations: Walt Disney Company, Disney, Hulu, ESPN, Paramount Global, Warner Bros . Discovery, Comcast, Fox, College Football, ABC, Disney Channel, FX, Geographic, Disney Junior Locations: Beverly Hills , California, U.S
It's been about a week since Disney , Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new joint venture to offer live sports outside the traditional cable bundle, and pay TV distributors are still trying to figure out just how disruptive the new service will be. If Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox allow distributors to offer the same product, in addition to the standard cable bundle, there's likely to be minimal consternation about the joint venture. Privately, however, leaders at Disney, Warner Bros.
Persons: It's Organizations: Disney, Warner Bros . Discovery, Fox, Comcast, Charter, DirecTV, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS
The PEG ratio, another valuation tool, starts with the price-to-earnings ratio and divides the P/E by estimated earnings growth. A good PEG ratio is 1 or lower. There is a major consideration when analyzing five-year valuation average comparisons: interest rates. The company's P/E ratio of 21.5 times is about 20% cheaper than peers and below its historical average of 29.6. Honeywell Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E): 19.4 P/E vs. peers: 10% cheaper P/E-to-growth ratio (PEG): 2.3 We like how Honeywell 's stock is valued post-earnings .
Persons: Bard, it's, Pacifico, Jim Cramer, Disney Price, Nelson Peltz, Jim, Peltz, Bob Iger, Honeywell Price, Nvidia Price, Nvidia's, Salesforce Price, we're, Wells Fargo, Charlie Scharf, Wynn, WYNN, Jim Cramer's, NVDA, New York Stock Exchange Michael Nagle Organizations: Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Google, Gemini, Amazon, Services, Constellation Brands, Modelo, Beer, Constellation, . Management, Disney, Management, Honeywell, Aerospace, Productivity Solutions, Starbucks, Wells, Silicon Valley Bank, Wynn Resorts EV, Wynn Resorts, Boston, WYNN, CNBC, New York Stock Exchange, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: FactSet, Corona, China, Israel, Wells Fargo Price, Wells Fargo, Silicon, Macao, Las Vegas
Nelson Peltz, founding partner and CEO of Trian Fund Management, speaks with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on July 17, 2013 in New York. Are you not entertained, Nelson Peltz? Both Disney's higher profits, and string of content and partnership announcements, appeared to form a direct rebuttal to Peltz's concerns about the company. It was hard to keep up with Disney's announcements this quarter:ESPN finally set a launch date for its direct-to-consumer service: August or fall of 2025. It's only logical that the mountain of announcements came this quarter, given activist pressure from Trian and Blackwells Capital.
Persons: Nelson Peltz, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, Peltz, Jay Rasulo, Michael Froman, Maria Elena Lagomasino, Bob Iger, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Iger, Boorstin, Taylor, Trian, Disney Organizations: Trian Fund Management, Disney, CNBC, ESPN, Epic Games, Warner Bros . Discovery, Fox, Blackwells, Disney Board Locations: New York, Trian
That's what makes the upcoming proxy battle between Disney and the activist investor Nelson Peltz so compelling. Peltz's Trian Partners investment firm oversees about $3 billion worth of Disney stock, including shares held by former Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter. For its fiscal second quarter, Disney expects net additional subscribers to Disney+ between 5.5 million and 6 million, with domestic adding 7.5 million due to its agreement with Charter Communications, while international core subs decline modestly. Disney is getting closer and closer to achieving its first profitable DTC quarter, which it continues to expect in its fiscal fourth quarter. In the Experiences segment, Disney delivered record revenue, operating income, and operating margin in its fiscal first quarter.
Persons: Bob Iger, Iger, Hugh Johnston, Nelson Peltz, Jay Rasulo, Peltz's, Ike Perlmutter, Taylor, Taylor Swift, , Johnston, Disney, WBD, That's, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Gabby Jones Organizations: Disney, Revenue, LSEG, Peltz's Trian Partners, Marvel Entertainment, Entertainment, Hulu, Netflix, Charter Communications, Networks, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Cruise, Sports, ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros Discovery, CNBC, Management, Epic Games, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Disney's, Florida, California, buybacks, Brooklyn , New York
The service will launch this fall and cater to sports fans who don't subscribe to the traditional cable bundle. One person associated with the launch of the new venture told CNBC the platform will be "a monster" and massively disrupt cable TV. Cable TV has been relegated to an add-on that helps keep people subscribing to high-speed internet. The cable bundle has largely survived because it still contains exclusive live news and sports. Previously, the only way for cord cutters to get ESPN outside the cable bundle would have been that coming service.
Persons: LeBron James, Jevone Moore, it's, Lachlan Murdoch, NBC's Peacock, Bob Iger, Rich Greenfield, Max, David Zaslav's, There's, David Zaslav, Lightshed's Rich Greenfield Organizations: Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, Los Angeles Clippers, Crypto.com Arena, Warner Bros . Discovery, Fox, Disney's ESPN, Comcast, DirecTV, CNBC, YouTube, Charter, Cable, Verizon, Mobile, Satellite, Google, Hulu, Live, Disney, Warner Bros, NBC, CBS, National Football League, Paramount, ESPN, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street, Financial Times, TNT, TBS, HGTV, Discovery, Paramount Global Locations: Los Angeles
ESPN, Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that will include offerings from at least 15 networks and all four major professional sports leagues. “This new sports service exemplifies our ability as an industry to drive innovation and provide consumers with more choice, enjoyment and value and we’re thrilled to deliver it to sports fans,” Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav said in a statement. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesIt will include offerings from 15 linear networks — ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network, TNT, TBS, truTV — and ESPN+. The announcement of the bundle also comes as ESPN and Warner Brothers Discovery are preparing to enter negotiations to renew their NBA rights, which expire at the end of next season. ESPN has also been searching for strategic partners as it prepares to launch a direct-to-consumer product in the next year or two.
Persons: , David Zaslav, truTV —, , Lachlan Murdoch, Bob Iger Organizations: ESPN, Fox, Warner Brothers Discovery, ” Warner Brothers Discovery, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, NASCAR, FIFA, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network, ABC, FOX, Big Ten Network, TNT, TBS, Disney, ” Fox, ” Walt Disney Company Locations: Hulu
Walt Disney 's ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. It will consist of all the broadcast and cable networks owned by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Fox will include the Fox broadcast station along with FS1, FS2 and BTN.
Persons: Walt Disney, Max Organizations: Disney, ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros, ESPN2, ABC, TNT, TBS Locations: Brooklyn, New York
Now combine them on one streaming service. That's what's coming this fall, via a new joint venture, co-owned by Disney, Warner Bros. AdvertisementPeople who are already watching sports on Disney-owned ESPN and the other channels that are joining the joint venture won't lose access to those games, which will stay on the linear channels. Icon Sportswire/Getty ImagesIt's worth noting that all three TV giants have tried a version of a streaming joint venture before. The company that was formerly known as Time Warner, which is now part of Warner Bros.
Persons: , That's, Disney's, Fox, Time Warner Organizations: Service, ESPN, ABC, Fox, TNT, TBS, Disney, Warner Bros, Fox Corp, Business, NFL, , CBS, NBC, Discovery, Hulu, Time
Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of the Allen Media Group, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 2, 2022. Byron Allen, the media mogul offering $14 billion for Paramount Global , told CNBC on Wednesday that he has the money to finance a deal, despite skepticism around his deal-making. Allen told CNBC he hasn't received a response from Paramount to his most recent offer. Paramount reported in its third-quarter earnings report that its streaming platform, Paramount+, increased its subscriber count to 63 million. Allen told CNBC he wants to buy Paramount for its linear networks, what he says is the most challenging part of the company.
Persons: Byron Allen, Allen, hasn't, Shari Redstone, David Ellison's, Tegna Allen, of Famer Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth, Ruth, Paramount's, — CNBC's Alex Sherman, Julia Boorstin Organizations: Allen Media Group, Milken Institute Global Conference, Paramount Global, CNBC, Federal Communications Commission, Street, Paramount, CBS, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Media, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Black Entertainment Television, VH1, Bloomberg, Scripps, ABC, Disney, National Football League's, The Weather, of Famer, Netflix, CNBC PRO Locations: Beverly Hills , California, U.S, E.W
Netflix now has 260.8 million paid subscribers, a new record for the service, it said when it reported quarterly results after the bell Tuesday. The subscriber growth easily tops the 8.76 million paid membership adds Netflix reported in the third quarter. The company also blew past Wall Street's fourth-quarter expectations of 8 million to 9 million. The company posted revenue of $8.83 billion for the quarter, up from $7.85 billion in the year-ago quarter. That's up from 15 million that the company reported in November.
Persons: Wall, We're, foresees, Amy Reinhard, it's, Greg Peters, Peters Organizations: ANGELES, Netflix, Wall, LSEG, U.S ., WWE Raw, Investors, Variety Entertainment, CES
NASHVILLE, Tenn, (AP) — NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal announced Wednesday that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season. The new media rights deal is worth $7.7 billion when the previously announced $1.1 billion agreement with CW is included, according to Sports Business Journal. The Cup Series will include existing partners Fox Sports and NBC, which will feature a mix of broadcast and cable events. After the Fox portion of the Cup Series, the next five Cup races will be on Amazon Prime Video. Discovery and Amazon also both obtained exclusive rights to practice and qualifying sessions for the entire Cup Series schedule through 2031.
Persons: SBJ, Steve Phelps, , Phelps, Fox, , Luis Silberwasser, Max, we’ve, ” Phelps Organizations: NASCAR, CW, Sports Business, Music City Center, Fox Sports, NBC, Fox, USA Network, Warner Bros ., Amazon Prime, Warner Bros, TNT, Max, Discovery Sports, NBC Sports, Busch, FOX Sports Locations: Tenn, FS1
Over the summer, Bob Iger seemed to hint that ABC and Disney's other networks were for sale. Since returning as CEO, Iger has turned his focus to streaming. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . "That was a means of my saying to Wall Street or the investment community that our heads were not in the sand about the challenges that those businesses were having," he said Wednesday. Perhaps Iger is once again testing the waters of the investment community.
Persons: Bob Iger, Iger, , Disney, Byron Allen Organizations: Service, ABC, Disney, The New York Times, Summit, CNBC, Allen, Co, Nexstar Media Group, Allen Media Group, Geographic Locations: Sun Valley , Idaho
The company announced it would slash expenses by another $2 billion, adding to the $5.5 billion reduction it had previously announced, which included thousands of job cuts. Meanwhile, the company continues to lose money in its Disney+ streaming business, but it managed to significantly reduce its losses in that division. The company reported revenue of $21.2 billion, coming in slightly below expectations of $21.3 billion, according to estimates from analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. The company said it was “aggressively managing its cost base,” planning to slash $2 billion more in costs than previously reported. “We are bullish about the future of our streaming business,” Iger said.
Persons: Los Angeles CNN — Disney, Bob Iger, Angus Mordant, Ron DeSantis, , , Kevin Lansberry, Lansberry, , “ We’re, Iger, ” Iger Organizations: Los Angeles CNN, Disney, Times, Bloomberg, Getty, Republican, Gov, Walt Disney World, ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, Geographic, , ABC Network, CNBC Locations: New York, Central Florida, Disney’s, Canada, Hulu
Activist investor Nelson Peltz may be intent on making sure Disney directors don't get that luxury. He tried earlier this year to get himself on the Disney board, only to be rebuffed by Iger and eventually walk away in February. Disney's board has also struggled to groom a successor to Iger, who has five times renewed his contract to stick around as CEO. Still, to sway Disney shareholders to vote for Peltz or other board members, Trian may need to push for specific ideas or financial engineering that Disney hasn't already articulated. If not, his next move could be a public fight to get himself and others on Disney's board.
Persons: Nelson Peltz, Ike Perlmutter, Bob Iger, Trian hasn't, Peltz, Hugh Johnston, Iger, Trian, Gamble, Bob Chapek, Mark Parker, Mary Barra, there's Organizations: Disney, Trian, Management, Marvel Entertainment, PepsiCo, Paramount Global, Comcast, Warner Bros, Discovery, AMC Networks, Lions, Entertainment, Proctor, Nike, General, Iger, CNBC, ABC, ESPN Locations: Iger
Analysts are eyeing updates on Disney's direct-to-consumer business and ESPN ahead of fiscal fourth-quarter results Wednesday, as the company pivots further into streaming. The analyst has a buy rating on Disney stock with a $125 per share price target, down from $128. Here's what other analysts on Wall Street are saying ahead of Disney's results. MoffettNathanson - buy rating MoffettNathanson has a buy rating on Disney stock and a $115 per share price target. Wells Fargo - overweight rating Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall rates the stock overweight with a $110 per share price target.
Persons: Disney, Goldman Sachs, Brett Feldman, Jason Bazinet, Morgan Stanley, Ben Swinburne, Michael Nathanson, Nathanson, Wells, Steven Cahall, Cahall, Michael Bloom Organizations: ESPN, Disney, DIS, Hulu, Comcast, Citi, Press, Sports, CNBC
Fox Sports drove higher consumption overall for Fox Corporation last quarter, CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Thursday during the company's quarterly earnings call. "FOX Sports was a big driver of that consumption, especially with its broadcast of the Women's World Cup, where the U.S. versus the Netherlands on Fox with the most watched Women's World Cup game match ever on U.S. English language television," Murdoch said. Sports programming costs drove expenses higher, weighing on profit and offsetting revenue growth in the company's TV segment. Fox cited the Women's World Cup and the renewal of National Football League rights as major costs. But it comes with a massive price tag, especially as linear networks and streaming services have begun battling it out for programming rights.
Persons: Lachlan Murdoch, Murdoch, Fox Organizations: Fox Sports, Utah Utes, USC Trojans, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Fox Corporation, Fox, FOX, Netherlands, Sports, National Football League, YouTube, NFL, DirecTV Locations: Los Angeles
Disney 's (DIS) first-ever breakout of ESPN's financials is another key step in CEO Bob Iger's turnaround for the embattled entertainment giant, displaying a stable top line and plenty of room for growth. For the nine months ended July 1, ESPN delivered $12.56 billion in revenue, according to this week's 8K government filing from Disney. The experiences division, which was basically unchanged in Iger's segment overhaul, had $24.39 billion during the first three quarters of fiscal 2023. Growing losses in Disney's linear TV assets may compel the company to sell all or some of them. We'll look for continued improvement when Disney's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings come out next month.
Persons: Bob Iger's, Iger, Disney, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, We're, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Gabby Jones Organizations: Disney, ESPN, ABC, CNBC, Penn Entertainment, ESPN Bet, Hulu, Comcast, Pro, Iger, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Brooklyn, New York
Disney to break out sports revenue in financial reports
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A sign is shown at one of the entrances to Disney Studios in Burbank, California, U.S., July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 18 (Reuters) - Walt Disney (DIS.N) will break out its sports programming revenue from the fourth quarter onwards following a restructuring of the company announced earlier this year, the media firm said on Wednesday. Results from Disney's media and entertainment business will be reported in two segments: entertainment and sports. The move comes as Disney scouts strategic partners for its sports network ESPN. The company in February announced a sweeping restructuring that created three internal units and included trimming the company's workforce by nearly 4%.
Persons: Mike Blake, Walt Disney, Yuvraj Malik, Devika Organizations: Disney Studios, REUTERS, Sports, ESPN, Disney, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Burbank , California, U.S, India, Bengaluru
This means pressure is on for CEO Bob Iger to turn the company's stock around. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe pressure knob for Bob Iger just got turned a little higher. AdvertisementAdvertisement"We wish the very best to Bob, this management team, and the board," Peltz said on CNBC at the time. Since Disney's stock price peaked for the year in February at about $113 per share, it's fallen more than 25% to about $84 per share. AdvertisementAdvertisementABC and Disney's other linear networks, like FX and The Disney Channel, could be among the first to go.
Persons: Nelson Peltz, Bob Iger, , Iger's, Peltz, Peltz's, he's, Peltz hasn't, Iger, Dan Ives, Apple hasn't, what's, Peter Csathy Organizations: Disney, ABC, ESPN, Service, Fund Management, Street Journal, CNBC, FX, Sun, Apple, Wedbush Securities
We're cautiously optimistic about Disney 's (DIS) decision to invest billions upon billions more into its booming theme parks. DIS 5D mountain DIS stock performance. In a separate note, KeyBanc believes Disney's DPEP segment has a "bright long-term future" after its analysts attended Disney's Investors Summit. Bottom line Disney's moat is its strong intellectual property that it can use to monetize and grow its business. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.
Persons: We're, Bob Iger, doesn't, Iger, He's, Morgan Stanley, KeyBanc, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Joseph Prezioso Organizations: Disney, Disney Parks, Hulu, ESPN, CNBC, Comcast, Penn Entertainment, Investments, Disney's Investors, DIS, Parks &, Anadolu Agency, Getty Locations: Hulu
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Jim Cramer said the affected Bronco plant at Ford (F) is a blow but not as big as it could have been had F-150 facilities been targeted. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.
Persons: Jim Cramer, Stocks, Ford, Bob Iger's, Byron Allen, Jim Cramer's, Jim Organizations: CNBC, Federal Reserve, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Bronco, Ford, Bank of America, Disney, ABC, Nexstar, Bloomberg Locations: U.S
Disney is in talks to sell ABC to Nexstar, Bloomberg first reported. But the reported talks are another sign that Iger means business when it comes to Disney's streaming future. The company's direct-to-consumer business reported a loss of $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year — 12% less than during the same period last year. But even if he does sell ABC — and manages to get a good price for it, despite its ominous future — his challenges are far from over. AdvertisementAdvertisementSo, then, what does the deal to sell ABC mean?
Persons: Bob Iger's, Bob Iger, Iger, Peter Csathy, he's, ABC's, Brian Roberts, there's, it's Organizations: Disney, ABC, Nexstar, Bloomberg, Service, Nexstar Media Group, Walt Disney Company, CNN, ESPN, Hulu, Hollywood, Magic Locations: Wall, Silicon, Sun, Iger, Hulu —, Hollywood, Magic Kingdom
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