Venu Sports is a live TV streaming service designed for sports fans and is said to be launching in later August now.
It has been reported by Front Row Sports (FOS) and Cord Cutters News that Venu Sports will be launching on Friday, August 23.
This is an important date too as it is at the weekend right before the 2024 college football season starts and is not quite two weeks before the upcoming NFL regular season starts on Thursday, September 5.
Venu Sports is a joint venture between FOX Sports, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The starting cost for the service is said to be $42.99 a month after a one-week free trial.
The service is said to have the following channels on it: ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN U, ESPNEWS, SECN, ACCN, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network (BTN), TNT, TBS, truTV, along with access to the ESPN+ streaming service.
On top of college football, it said that the streaming service will give users live access to NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball and other college athletics, tennis, cycling, NASCAR, F1, and other sporting events too.
The app is said to be in a beta test for a small number of users, but there are screenshots and images and what the interface looks like and what users of the app can expect to see and get from Venu Sports.
With everything said here, due to a current lawsuit going on between the three companies that make up Venu Sports and FuboTV, the launch date could get blocked, according to the FOS report.
“Since Tuesday, federal court Judge Margaret Garnett has presided over four days of testy hearings over Fubo’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Fubo contends Venu is anticompetitive and violates antitrust law because the three giants are licensing just their sports channels to Venu, which they won’t do for other pay-TV distributors. Fubo seeks the right to license only the sports channels from those giants”¦Over four days, the judge has heard from 18 witnesses, and the testimony has revealed a raft of figures that hadn’t previously been made public. This includes the fact that the three partners in Venu each invested $400 million, each committed to spending $15 million on marketing in Venu’s first year, and all agreed to a noncompete for Venu’s first three years that prevents them from making similar pacts with other media companies.”
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