The end of Venu Sports, and the future of sports streaming

Venu Sports seemed appreciate such an clear idea. Instead of spreading all your sports seeing apass a million contrastent platestablishs with a million contrastent interfaces and subscriptions, what if you could watch everyleang in the same place? It creates perfect sense, until you get to the caveats. It’s not everyleang. It’s going to be costly. Some will debate it’s anticompetitive. Maybe this isn’t a outstanding idea after all.

On this episode of The Vergecast, after a inestablish refresh on the state of the TikTok ban, we scrutinize the inestablish life and hushed death of the presumed future of sports streaming. Sportico’s Jacob Feldman unites the show to elucidate where Venu came from, why its parent companies — ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros.-Discovery — thought it was a outstanding idea, and why Fubo instantly picked a fight over its existence. We also talk the future of sports streaming now that Venu is gone, and whether ESPN, Amazon, or someone else stands to be the next worldexpansive directer.

After that, The Verge’s Kevin Nguyen unites the show for the first in our two-part New Year’s Resolution series. If you’re hoping to read more books this year, or equitable want to replace some of your aimless scrolling with more intensifyed reading, Kevin has some tips on how to create it labor on all your devices, at all times of day. Sometimes you get to curl up with a outstanding book, but sometimes you have three minutes in line at the coffee shop. If you do it right, they’re both wonderful reading times.

Finassociate, we answer a ask on the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, or email vergecast@theverge.com) about why your phone won’t let you take part multiple audio sources at a time. We have some ideas about how it labors — and an effortless way for Apple and Google to mend it.

If you want to understand more about everyleang we talk in this episode, here are some connects to get you commenceed: