Why Disney-ESPN, Fox, and WBD are wrong about cord-cutters and sports
The jokes arrived almost immediately after the announcement. On Tuesday, February 6, Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled plans to pool their resources into a brand-new mega-streamer, the most robust one-stop-shop for sports on the market. By the end of the day, social media users were snarking about how the trio had just reinvented cable.Of course, the difference between the forthcoming streamer and cable is that people demonstrably want cable. Or at least they used to. The more apt comparison in terms of…