Comment on Was Disney's Fox purchase a huge waste of money?

canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The Simpsons and Family guys alone are worth 70 billion. You factor in merchandising and catalog, there are a lot of people who would just sign up to a streaming service just for those shows. The Simpsons is a merchandising juggernaut. There’s billions of dollars in the stupid branded shit - this is also why they bought Star Wars and have basically shrugged off the fact that they botched the trilogy with the immense amount of money they are able to print off of the merchandising.

In Canada they do have the Fox/Hulu library as part of Disney+ because Hulu never launched here - we’re a tangled web of media rights between the telcom conglomerates that own the rights to most of the stuff and keep the market noncompetitive. Most of the rights of Fox stuff was probably owned by Rogers or Bell and therefore not worth launching the service up here. That’s how HBO is. HBO’s content is all licensed by Bell so it’s on their shitty streaming service. Most of us would pay for HBO or MAX or whatever the fuck if it was a standalone service, but we can’t.

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