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Verizon said to talk with Disney on ESPN partnership

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) has reportedly jumped in to the open talks with Disney (NYSE:DIS) over a potential strategic partnership on sports broadcast giant ESPN.
The carrier has expressed openness to teaming up on ESPN’s move toward a streaming service, The Information reported, noting CEO Hans Vestberg has said as much to sports leagues and teams.
A partnership would offer a good start to an ESPN streaming service as it would presumably go to Verizon’s (VZ) nearly 100M wireless subscribers.
It would also build on Verizon’s early partnership with Disney when the Mouse House launched Disney+ with a bang. Verizon offered the new service to its wireless customers (and some cable customers) free for a year at its late-2019 launch.
At the Allen & Co. conference in July, Disney CEO Bob Iger suggested that the company was evaluating whether its linear television networks were core to the business, suggesting the company would pursue

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