Venu Sports TVE availability? (Sports only - ESPN, ESPN+, ABC, FOX, FS1, etc.)

Did a Google search of the forum and didn't see Venu mentioned. So, apologies if already posted and I missed it. It's supposed to be $43/month and release sometime this month. Has anyone heard any rumors on if it'll offer TVE

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/venu-sports-new-sports-streaming-service-between-warner-fox-and-disney.3294513/page-10?post_id=63478122#post-63478122

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### What channels will be included?

Subscribers get access to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV, as well as ESPN+. They’ll also get on-demand programs from the other sports networks’ archives.

### What sports-related content won’t be included?

Since NBC and CBS Sports aren’t involved, you won’t be able to find any of their sports programming. That encompasses a wide variety of games and events, including NBC’s upcoming NBA games, Notre Dame football games, CBS’s NFL slate, NBC’s Sunday Night Football, and CBS’s Big Ten games, just to name a few.

Any sporting events on other streaming services, such as Amazon (“Thursday Night Football”), Netflix (“NFL Christmas Day games”), Peacock (“Notre Dame/Big Ten games”), and Apple TV+ (MLS and MLB games), won’t be included as well.

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I would hazard a guess that since it's a streaming only service by some pretty big names in the industry that there will be no TVE access to it. TVE was started by cable companies to allow their subs to access networks via apps using the subscribers cable company auth. Things have changed since then and the cablecos are bleeding subs.

I'm expecting TVE will be. pulled once the new streaming service starts.
Most customers will want the app access with DVR etc.
Users like it super simple.

The site hasn't even opened up shop. Its wait and see for the time being...

Good luck to fubo in future contract negotiations

The providers got what they deserved, they were clearly colluding to keep Fubo from offering a sports bundle.

They just flushed their $1.2 billion down the drain unless they get a sniff that they can't act like an oligopoly.

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yeah if Venu isn't a trust might as well change the definition of the word

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RIP, Venu

LOL, wait, let me get this story straight:

  • Announce new service that competes with yourself and your partners

  • Get sued by one of those partners with the support of your other partners

  • Instead of backing down, not only have all the legal costs over the course of a year-plus-plus-plus-max, but just straight up buy your partner in the end to shut them up

  • Completely give up a day later when your other partners threaten to pick the case back up

  • Waste hundreds of millions of dollars and countless man-hours to get almost back to where you were before all this, except poorer

  • Lay off employees for your incompetence and waste of resources while you get to have another solid gold Humvee

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Companies when their trusts are threatened by anti-trust laws: :no_mouth:

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Yeah the judge made it pretty clear last year that they were going to have a hard time with antitrust (with good reason), tons of money wasted on this.